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

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An important contribution to Kant scholarship. Henry Allison, a preeminent interpreter of Kant, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. No one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this study.

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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; Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Conception of Reflective Judgment: 1. Reflective judgment and the purposiveness of nature; 2. Reflection and taste in the introductions; Part II. Te Quid Facti and the Quid Juris in the Domain of Taste: 3. The analytic of the beautiful and the quid facti: an overview; 4. The disinterestedness of the pure judgment of taste; 5. Subjective universality, the universal voice, and the harmony of the faculties; 6. Beauty, purposiveness, and form; 7. The modality of taste and the sensus communis; 8. The deduction of pure judgments of taste; Part III. The Moral and Systematic Significance of Taste: 9. Reflective judgment and the transition from nature to freedom; 10. Beauty, duty, and interest: the moral significance of natural beauty; 11. The antinomy of taste and beauty as a symbol of morality; Part IV. Parerga to the Theory of Taste: 12. Fine art and genius; 13. The sublime; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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'Kant's Theory of Taste is a well produced volume usefully equipped at the end with a compendious bibliography.' Mind

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An important study of Kant's aesthetics, from a leading Kant scholar.

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"This commentary on the 'Critique of Aethetic Judgment,' the first half of Kant's ^Critique of Judgement, has four parts.... The final part examines Kant's claim that a beautiful work of art must both seem like nature and be recognized as art." Choice

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An important contribution to Kant scholarship. Henry Allison, a pre-eminent interpreter of Kant, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. No one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this study.

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An important contribution to Kant scholarship. Henry Allison, a pre-eminent interpreter of Kant, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. No one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this study.

Details ISBN0521791545 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Modern European Philosophy Year 2001 ISBN-10 0521791545 ISBN-13 9780521791540 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2001-03-19 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 111.85 Author Henry E. Allison Edition 1st Pages 444 Media Book Short Title KANTS THEORY OF TASTE Language English Affiliation University of California, San Diego, and Boston University (Emeritus) Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780521791540 UK Release Date 2001-03-19 AU Release Date 2001-03-19 NZ Release Date 2001-03-19 Alternative 9780511612671 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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