Wittgenstein's Disruptive Take On Aesthetics

1938. On a warm summer day at Cambridge University, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured an exclusive group of students on his contrarian ideas on the study of aesthetics. A series of notes were taken that covers some interesting questions on Wittgenstein's theories, such as…

• What does Wittgenstein mean by framing aesthetics as a game with rules of correctness, and how does this concept challenge traditional views of aesthetics?
• Why is understanding the game's rules essential in regards to aesthetic judgment? 
• What is the difference between feeling and causation in aesthetics?
• How do conscious and unconscious motivations influence our attitude in aesthetics? 
• How does visual impression shape our aesthetic experience, and why does Wittgenstein emphasize its importance?

This paper summarizes roughly 87 pages of the French Gallimard's edition of Wittgenstein's lectures. In 4 pages I cover...

• The brief context of Wittgenstein's original take on aesthetics,
• Wittgenstein's thesis of aesthetics as a game with rules of correctness,
• Four main movements of the paper alongside their principal arguments: I. What is the role of the words of aesthetics? II. What is the role of the feeling of aesthetics? III. What is the role of the attitude in aesthetics? IV. What is the role of the visual impression in aesthetics?

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