Expérience esthétique et herméneutique philosophique
The aim of this article is to investigate the link between H.-R. Jauss’s theory of reception and the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer. Yet it is Kant’s theory of the judgment of taste that is best suited to show the distance that separates the two authors from the start. Jauss grounds his project on the modern approach to art, which implies what Gadamer characterizes as the “abstraction of aesthetic consciousness.” We know that Gadamer condemns this consciousness, which finds its paradigmatic expression in Kant’s aesthetics, because this consciousness deprives itself of the practical dimension of the work and of its truth. The task for Jauss then is to overcome the loss entailed by such an abstract consciousness, which consists in a feeling of pleasure (aesthesis), in order for the reception of the work of art to be fruitful for the lifeworld, as Gadamer would expect.
H. R. Jauss H.-G. Gadamer Kant Application Aesthetic consciousness Feeling of pleasure