Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment,9780521795340

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

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ISBN13: 9780521795340
ISBN10: 0521795346
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-16
Publisher(s): 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 pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both empirical knowledge and judgments of taste. The second and third parts treat two questions that Allison insists must be kept distinct: the normativity of pure judgments of taste, and the moral and systematic significance of taste. The fourth part considers two important topics often neglected in the study of Kant's aesthetics: his conceptions of fine art, and the sublime.

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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