Kant's theory of taste: a reading of the Critique of aesthetic judgment

✍ Scribed by Kant, Immanuel; Allison, Henry E.; Kant, Immanuel

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Series: Modern European philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
NOTE ON SOURCES AND KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 19
I KANT’S CONCEPTION OF REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT......Page 29
1 REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT AND THE PURPOSIVENESS OF NATURE......Page 31
I......Page 32
II......Page 38
III......Page 48
IV......Page 53
2 REFLECTION AND TASTE IN THE INTRODUCTIONS......Page 61
I......Page 62
II......Page 64
III......Page 69
IV......Page 73
V......Page 77
II THE QUID FACTI AND THE QUID JURIS IN THE DOMAIN OF TASTE......Page 83
3 THE ANALYTIC OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE QUID FACTI......Page 85
I......Page 86
II......Page 89
III......Page 90
IV......Page 96
V......Page 100
4 THE DISINTERESTEDNESS OF THE PURE JUDGMENT OF TASTE......Page 103
I......Page 104
II......Page 108
III......Page 110
IV......Page 112
5 SUBJECTIVE UNIVERSALITY, THE UNIVERSAL VOICE, AND THE HARMONY OF THE FACULTIES......Page 116
I......Page 117
II......Page 121
III......Page 122
IV......Page 128
6 BEAUTY, PURPOSIVENESS, AND FORM......Page 137
I......Page 138
II......Page 143
III......Page 149
IV......Page 156
7 THE MODALITY OF TASTE AND THE SENSUS COMMUNIS......Page 162
I......Page 164
II......Page 167
III......Page 174
8 THE DEDUCTION OF PURE JUDGMENTS OF TASTE......Page 178
I......Page 179
II......Page 182
III......Page 186
IV......Page 190
V......Page 192
VI......Page 197
VII......Page 202
III THE MORAL AND SYSTEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TASTE......Page 211
9 REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT AND THE TRANSITION FROM NATURE TO FREEDOM......Page 213
I......Page 215
II......Page 219
III......Page 224
IV......Page 228
V......Page 231
10 BEAUTY, DUTY, AND INTEREST......Page 237
I......Page 239
II......Page 241
III......Page 245
IV......Page 247
11 THE ANTINOMY OF TASTE AND BEAUTY AS A SYMBOL OF MORALITY......Page 254
I......Page 255
II......Page 258
III......Page 264
IV......Page 272
V......Page 282
VI......Page 284
IV PARERGA TO THE THEORY OF TASTE......Page 287
12 FINE ART AND GENIUS......Page 289
I......Page 291
II......Page 297
III......Page 304
IV......Page 308
V......Page 316
13 THE SUBLIME......Page 320
I......Page 322
II......Page 325
III......Page 329
IV......Page 334
V......Page 342
VI......Page 345
VII......Page 350
VIII......Page 354
IX......Page 359
Introduction......Page 363
Chapter 1. Reflective Judgment and the Purposiveness of Nature......Page 366
Chapter 2. Reflection and Taste in the Introductions......Page 371
Chapter 3. The Analytic of the Beautiful and the Quid Facti: an Overview......Page 374
Chapter 4. The Disinterestedness of the Pure Judgment of Taste......Page 378
Chapter 5. Subjective Universality, the Universal Voice, and the Harmony of the Faculties......Page 379
Chapter 6. Beauty, Purposiveness, and Form......Page 382
Chapter 7. The Modality of Taste and the Sensus Communis......Page 388
Chapter 8. The Deduction of Pure Judgments of Taste......Page 391
Chapter 9. Reflective Judgment and the Transition from Nature to Freedom......Page 395
Chapter 10. Beauty, Duty, and Interest: The Moral Significance of Natural Beauty......Page 398
Chapter 11. The Antinomy of Taste and Beauty as a Symbol of Morality......Page 400
Chapter 12. Fine Art and Genius......Page 407
Chapter 13. The Sublime......Page 413
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 423
INDEX......Page 433

✦ Subjects

Philosophy