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9780521791540

Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment

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    9780521791540

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    0521791545

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-03-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. An authoritative guide to the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (the first and most important part of the Critique of Judgment), no one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this groundbreaking study.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations and Translations xiii
Introduction 1(12)
PART I. KANT'S CONCEPTION OF REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT
Reflective Judgment and the Purposiveness of Nature
13(30)
Reflection and Taste in the Introductions
43(24)
PART II. THE QUID FACTI AND THE QUID JURIS IN THE DOMAIN OF TASTE
The Analytic of the Beautiful and the Quid Facti: An Overview
67(18)
The Disinterestedness of the Pure Judgment of Taste
85(13)
Subjective Universality, the Universal Voice, and the Harmony of the Faculties
98(21)
Beauty, Purposiveness, and Form
119(25)
The Modality of Taste and the Sensus Communis
144(16)
The Deduction of Pure Judgments of Taste
160(35)
PART III. THE MORAL AND SYSTEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TASTE
Reflective Judgment and the Transition from Nature to Freedom
195(24)
Beauty, Duty, and Interest: The Moral Significance of Natural Beauty
219(17)
The Antinomy of Taste and Beauty as a Symbol of Morality
236(35)
PART IV. PARERGA TO THE THEORY OF TASTE
Fine Art and Genius
271(31)
The Sublime
302(43)
Notes 345(60)
Bibliography 405(10)
Index 415

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