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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2007 47(3):258-267; doi:10.1093/aesthj/aym006
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© British Society of Aesthetics 2007

Beauty and Language

Gary Kemp

Gary Kemp, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Email: G.Kemp{at}Philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk


  Abstract

I argue against Hume and Kant, who maintain that ‘beauty’ expresses a state of the subject, rather than describes features of the object. The word ‘beauty’ is far from being alone in having an expressive dimension, and that which it has falls short of individuating it semantically. Instead, I propose a theory of linguistic idealism with respect to ‘beauty’.


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