Kantian Aesthetics Pursued

Author : Savile Anthony Savile
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781474472289

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Kantian Aesthetics Pursued by Savile Anthony Savile Pdf

Concerned with topics at the heart of Kant's aesthetics, this provoking reading of The Critique of Judgement focuses on often misunderstood or neglected themes. Starting from the issues of the truth and justifiability of our critical assertions, Anthony Savile develops Kantian theory broadly across the arts, and shows it working with subtlety and rigour in cases as diverse as music and architecture. New light is thrown on the exemplary necessity of our aesthetic pleasures, on the Antimony of Taste, on the distinction between free and dependent beauty, on the supposed idealism of taste, and on the a priori limits of fine art. Eminently subjective material is here given a place in Kant's overall idealism in a sophisticated discussion that will invite the close attention of Kant scholars and aestheticians alike.

Author : Bradley Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118950654

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The Possibility of Culture by Bradley Murray Pdf

The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant’s Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant’s depiction of the ways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moral development. Presents an in-depth exploration of the connection between Kant’s aesthetics and his views on moral development Reveals the links between Kant’s aesthetics and his anthropology and moral psychology Explores Kant’s notion of genius and his views on the connections between the social aspects of taste and moral development Addresses aspects of Kant’s ethical theory that will interest scholars working in ethics and moral psychology

Author : Barrows Dunham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3925332

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A Study in Kant's Aesthetics by Barrows Dunham Pdf

Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Thierry de Duve
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226546735

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Aesthetics at Large by Thierry de Duve Pdf

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthetic theories situated in the Hegelian tradition, this provocative thesis, which already guided de Duve’s groundbreaking book Kant After Duchamp (1996), is here pursued in order to demonstrate that far from confining aesthetics to a stifling formalism isolated from all worldly concerns, Kant’s guidance urgently opens the understanding of art onto ethics and politics. Central to de Duve’s re-reading of the Critique of Judgment is Kant’s idea of sensus communis, ultimately interpreted as the mere yet necessary idea that human beings are capable of living in peace with one another. De Duve pushes Kant’s skepticism to its limits by submitting the idea of sensus communis to various tests leading to questions such as: Do artists speak on behalf of all of us? Is art the transcendental ground of democracy? Or, Was Adorno right when he claimed that no poetry could be written after Auschwitz? Loaded with de Duve’s trademark blend of wit and erudition and written without jargon, these essays radically renew current approaches to some of the most burning issues raised by modern and contemporary art. They are indispensable reading for anyone with a deep interest in art, art history, or philosophical aesthetics.

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199579976

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The Kantian Aesthetic by Paul Crowther Pdf

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. Paul Crowther offers an original and lively approach to the cognitive structure of aesthetic judgment.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Donald W. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015002690884

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Kant's Aesthetic Theory by Donald W. Crawford Pdf

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. He is a central figure of modern philosophy, and set the terms by which all subsequent thinkers have had to grapple. He argued that human perception structures natural laws, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to hold a major influence in contemporary thought, especially in fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

Author : Brent Kalar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 1472545885

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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics by Brent Kalar Pdf

Author : Christian Helmut Wenzel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
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 : Brent Kalar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144508

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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics by Brent Kalar Pdf

Typically philosophers have either viewed beauty as objective and judgments of beauty as universally valid, or else they have viewed beauty as subjective and regarded judgments of beauty as merely private preferences. Immanuel Kant is famous for his unique third path. Kant argues that beauty is subjective, but the judgment of taste about beauty is capable of universal validity. In his view, the beautiful is not a feature of objects themselves, but merely represents the way we respond to objects. Furthermore, the judgment of taste about beauty is a merely 'aesthetic' judgment - i.e., one based on a feeling of pleasure we take in the object. The judgment of taste, on the other hand, possesses 'universal validity': to call something beautiful is implicitly to 'demand' that all others find it beautiful as well. Kant's views about the taste for the beautiful have long been the subject of controversy. Scholars have differed over the interpretation of the demand contained in a judgment of taste and whether Kant's attempt to legitimate this demand is successful. Brent Kalar argues that the demands of taste should be understood as involving a uniquely aesthetic normativity rooted in Kant's cognitive psychology. If the basis of aesthetic pleasure in the activity of the cognitive faculties is properly understood, then Kant's attempt to legitimate the demands of taste may be regarded as a success. This leads Kalar to give a new interpretation of the nature of the beautiful according to Kant that re-examines the relationship between 'free play' and the 'form of purposiveness' in Kant's aesthetics, and restores the 'aesthetic ideas' to their rightful centrality in Kant's theory.

Author : Mojca Kuplen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350289536

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Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism by Mojca Kuplen Pdf

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study covers the value and importance of art, the relationship between art and beauty, the role of knowledge in art and the criteria for artistic excellence. It offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science. Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism presents these arguments in a lucid and wide-ranging engagement with the history of aesthetics and current academic debates to understand what art is and why it is valuable.

Author : Robert R. Clewis
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781535857130

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Kant's Aesthetics by Robert R. Clewis Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Kant's Aesthetics is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Kenneth F. Rogerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040681202

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Kant's Aesthetics by Kenneth F. Rogerson Pdf

Author : James Kirwan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847142429

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The Aesthetic in Kant by James Kirwan Pdf

Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is widely held to be the seminal work of modern aesthetics. In recent years it has been the focus of intense interest and debate not only in philosophy but also in literary theory and all disciplines concerned with the aesthetic. The Aesthetic in Kant is a new reading of Kant's problematic text. It draws upon the great volume of recent philosophical work on this classic text and on the context of eighteenth century aesthetics. Kant's work is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative to the antinomy of taste - the basic problem of the aesthetic. In Kant's account is a theory of the aesthetic that, far from establishing its 'disinterested' nature, instead makes it symptomatic of what Kant himself describes as the ineradicable human tendency to entertain 'fantastic desires'.