Critique of the power of judgment / Immanuel Kant ; edited by Paul Guyer ; translated by Paul Guyer, Eric Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Contributor:

Guyer, Paul, 1948-

Matthews, Eric, 1936-

Series:

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. English. 1992 Works.

The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant

Standardized Title:

Kritik der Urteilskraft. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Judgment (Logic)--Early works to 1800.

Judgment (Logic).

Judgment (Aesthetics)--Early works to 1800.

Judgment (Aesthetics).

Aesthetics--Early works to 1800.

Aesthetics.

Teleology--Early works to 1800.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

lii, 423 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated into English as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great Critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. In the third Critique Kant unified the principles of human cognition and conduct expounded in the first two Critiques. He argued that in scientific inquiry, in moral and practical conduct, and even in the experience of such aesthetic phenomena as the beautiful and the sublime as well as in the creation of art, human beings must be understood as autonomous agents whose thoughts and actions are grounded on principles independent of experience but who are also at home and effective in nature. Kant thus revealed a deep unity where previously the causal realm of nature and the free domain of human intentions had been thought unrelated. The third Critique argues against the division of human thought and conduct and offers an integrated picture of the human condition in which we can make sense of ourselves only if we believe that our autonomy of will and imagination can be effective in nature. This powerful new description of the human condition was to exert a deep influence on such writers as Schiller and Schopenhauer, and would also shape conceptions of science from Goethe to the present day.

This entirely new translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant with extensive annotation, glossaries, and an index. This volume includes the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work. It is the only English edition to note the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work, and among the copious citations and sources are references to the relevant passages on aesthetics in Kant's lectures on anthropology recently published for the first time in German.

Contents:

Background: The possibility of a critique of taste and teleology xiii

Part 1 Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment 87

Section 1, Book 1 Analytic of the Beautiful 89

Section 1, Book 2 Analytic of the Sublime 128

Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments 160

Section 2 The Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment 213

Appendix On the Methodology of Taste 228

Part 2 Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment 231

Division 1 Analytic of the Teleological Power of Judgment 235

Division 2 Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment 257

Appendix Methodology of the Teleological Power of Judgment 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-397) and index.

ISBN:

0521344476

OCLC:

43083407