Silva, Fernando M. F.2023-10-242023-10-242020-09-15Silva, Fernando M. F. ‘Kant on the Concept of Witz.’ Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics LVII/XIII, no. 2 (2020): pp. 163–182. ESTETIKA DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.2210014-1291http://hdl.handle.net/10451/59944The central aim of this essay is to portray Kant’s notion of Witz as it unfolds from his Lectures on Anthropology, in a decisive stage of his intellectual evolution (1772–96). This aim is sub-divided into two parallel objectives: first, to sketch a brief history of the concept of Witz, thus showing how Witz came to evolve from having a rational connotation to having an imaginative connotation, and how it came to be a pregnant philosophical issue, as well as an aesthetic principle. Secondly, to show how Kant read that singular course in the evolution of Witz; how, in his view, Witz and the power of judgement, imagination, and intellect are indeed opposed, but also how there is a necessity to unite both opposing parts; a convergence which is not only advantageous for both parts, but serves a greater purpose: to create an unsuspected link between imagination and understanding, as well as between philosophy and poetry.engKantWitzPower of judgementPoetryjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.2212571-0915