A Study In Kant S Aesthetics

Author : Christian Helmut Wenzel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
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Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405150156

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An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics by Christian Helmut Wenzel Pdf

In An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant’s other work. Explains difficult concepts in plain language, using numerous examples and a helpful glossary. Proceeds in the same order as Kant’s text for ease of reference and comprehension. Includes an illuminating foreword by Henry E. Allison. Offers twenty-six further-reading sections, commenting briefly on books and articles from the English, German, and French, that are relevant for each topic Provides an extensive bibliography and a chapter summarizing Kant's main points.

Author : Barrows Dunham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3925332

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A Study in Kant's Aesthetics by Barrows Dunham Pdf

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139428682

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Kant's Theory of Taste by Henry E. Allison Pdf

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.

Author : Dieter Henrich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0804723672

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Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World by Dieter Henrich Pdf

This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great classical German tradition from Kant to Hegel. The first essay summarizes Henrich's research into the development of the Kant's moral philosophy, focusing on the architecture of the third Critique. Of special interest in this essay is Henrich's intriguing and wholly new account of the relations between Kant and Rousseau. In the second essay, Henrich analyzes the interrelations between Kant's aesthetics and his cognitive theories. His third essay argues that the justification of the claim that human rights are universally valid requires reference to a moral image of the world. To employ Kant's notion of a moral image of the world without ignoring the insights and experience of this century requires drastic changes in the content of such an image. Finally, in Henrich's ambitious concluding essay, the author compares the development of the political process of the French Revolution and the course of classical German philosophy, raise the general question of the relation between political processes and theorizing, and argues that both the project of political liberty set in motion by the French Revolution, and the projects of classical German philosophy remain incomplete.

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521568331

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Kant and the Experience of Freedom by Paul Guyer Pdf

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).

Author : Francis X. J.. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aesthetics, German
ISBN : 0783721498

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The Harmony of Reason by Francis X. J.. Coleman Pdf

Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804780315

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The Idea of Form by Rodolphe Gasché Pdf

Against the assumption that aesthetic form relates to a harmonious arrangement of parts into a beautiful whole, this book argues that reason is the real theme of the "Critique of Judgment" as of the two earlier "Critiques." Since aesthetic judgment of the beautiful becomes possible only when the mind is confronted with things of nature, for which no determined concepts of understanding are available, aesthetic judgment is involved in an epistemological or, rather, para-epistemological task. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation ("Darstellung") in what Kant refers to as "mere form," which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Such a notion of form reveals why the beautiful can be related to the morally good. On the basis of this reinterpreted concept of form, most major concepts and themes of the "Critique of Judgment"--such as disinterestedness, free play, the sublime, genius, and beautiful arts--are examined by the author and shown in a new light.

Author : Ross Wilson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303911106X

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Subjective Universality in Kant's Aesthetics by Ross Wilson Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, this book offers a new and comprehensive examination of Kant's argument that aesthetic judgements are combined with a claim to subjective universality. The author gives a detailed account of the background to this claim in Kant's epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, before closely attending to the crucial sections of the Critique of the Power of Judgement. In particular, it is shown that Kant's aesthetics requires that his theory of the subject be rethought. Central to the theory of the subject that begins to emerge from the Third Critique is Kant's enigmatic notion of 'life' which is extensively explored here. This study, therefore, thoroughly examines the central features of Kant's account of aesthetic judgements, suggesting that a new and exciting theory of subjectivity begins to be outlined in Kant's aesthetics. The author argues for the placement of Kant's account of the subjective universality of aesthetic judgement at the centre of contemporary philosophical aesthetics.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547805052

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The Critique of Judgment (Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment & Theory of the Teleological Judgment) by Immanuel Kant Pdf

The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more commonly referred to as the third Critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment completes the Critical project begun in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason (the first and second Critiques, respectively). The book is divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment, and also includes a large overview of the entirety of Kant's Critical system, arranged in its final form. The end result of Kant's Critical Project is that there are certain fundamental antinomies in human Reason, most particularly that there is a complete inability to favor on the one hand the argument that all behavior and thought is determined by external causes, and on the other that there is an actual "spontaneous" causal principle at work in human behavior. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.

Author : Francis X. J. Coleman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822976028

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The Harmony of Reason by Francis X. J. Coleman Pdf

The Harmony of Reason is the first book-length critical study of Kant's Critique of Judgement, shedding new light on this often-overlooked work and Kant's other writings on aesthetics. Francis X. J. Coleman's deep analysis of Kant is intended for readers interested in philosophy, fine arts and literary criticism.

Author : Mojca Küplen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319198996

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Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination by Mojca Küplen Pdf

This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant’s central notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness. In addition, the book also applies an interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetics to resolve certain issues that have been raised in contemporary aesthetics, namely the possibility of appreciating artistic and natural ugliness and the role of disgust in artistic representation. Offering a theoretical and practical analysis of different kinds of negative aesthetic experiences, this book will help readers acquire a better understanding of his or her own evaluative processes, which may be helpful in coping with complex aesthetic experiences. Readers will gain unique insight into how ugliness can be offensive, yet, at the same time, fascinating, interesting and captivating.

Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521387086

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Kant's Theory of Freedom by Henry E. Allison Pdf

An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers critical literature on the subject.

Author : Ralf Meerbote,Hud Hudson
Publisher : Ridgeview Publishing Company
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:49015002395979

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Kant's Aesthetics by Ralf Meerbote,Hud Hudson Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Tinguely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351622790

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Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics by Joseph J. Tinguely Pdf

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality. Kant’s account is distinct in that feeling, affect, or mood must be operative within the way the mind receives the world. Moreover, these modes of receptivity fall within the normative domain so that we can hold each other responsible for how we are "struck" by an object or scene. Joseph Tinguely composes a series of investigations into the philosophically rich but regrettably neglected topics at the intersection of Kant’s aesthetics and epistemology, such as how we orient ourselves in the world, whether tonality is a property of the subject or object, and what we hope to accomplish when we quarrel about taste. Taken together, these investigations offer a robust and defensible picture of mind, which not only resolves tensions in a Kantian account of intentionality but also offers a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the "aesthetic" nature of the way the mind is in touch with the world. Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics will appeal to scholars and students of Kant, as well as those working at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy of mind.

Author : Eva Schaper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0852243596

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Studies in Kant's Aesthetics by Eva Schaper Pdf