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Join us at BICA School for a casual, come-as-you-are reading group that welcomes everyone—whether you’ve read the text cover to cover or just want to hear what others have to say. We’ll explore critical and curious texts together in a space that values open conversation, listening, and learning.
Read ahead if you can, but there’s no pressure to be an expert—just bring your thoughts, questions, and curiosity.
What makes something beautiful? Is taste just personal—or do we expect others to agree with us when we say something is really beautiful?
In this week’s reading, Kant begins to untangle the nature of aesthetic judgment, setting up a framework that’s still foundational in how we think and talk about art today. We’ll work through his distinction between the agreeable, the good, and the beautiful, and ask what it means to judge something “disinterestedly.”
A little dense? Yes. But worth it—and we’ll make our way through it together.