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    It is not the case that Romantic criticism is deficient as a mode of aesthetic judgement

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    • 1.Romantic criticism is entirely positive in its evaluation
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    • 2.Genuine judgement requires a negative moment — the capacity to evaluate works as failures or inferior
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    • 3.Romantic criticism lacks this negative moment
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    • 1.Romantic criticism, as Benjamin analyzes it, treats criticism as the self-unfolding of the work's own immanent criteria, precluding external standards.
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    • 2.Without external or trans-work standards, criticism collapses into mere explication, unable to rank works or identify aesthetic failure.
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    • 3.Kant's aesthetic theory demonstrates that genuine judgement requires universally communicable standards, not criteria internal to each individual work.
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    • 1.Romantic criticism dissolves the boundary between critic and artwork by treating reflection as the medium in which the work completes itself.
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    • 2.When the critic's reflection is absorbed into the work's self-completion, the critic loses the epistemic distance required for evaluative judgement.
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    • 3.Hegel's critique of Romantic irony establishes that aesthetic positions requiring the dissolution of the evaluating subject cannot yield determinate judgements.
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