Abstract

This chapter examines the concept of the child-genius exemplified by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It explains that Immanuel Kant is responsible for the Romantic version of the Platonic genius, and suggests that the most influential and familiar notion in Kant's philosophy of beauty is the notion of disinterestedness. The chapter also discusses the early formulations of the doctrine of disinterested perception of the beautiful and Arthur Schopenhauer's concept of genius.

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