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The aesthetic in Kant : a critique / James Kirwan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirwan, James, 1961-
- Series:
- Continuum studies in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2004]
- Summary:
- Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is widely considered 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 other disciplines in which the nature of the aesthetic is an issue.
- Contents:
- 1 The Description of Taste I: Immediacy and Necessity 12
- The subjectivity of the judgement of taste 13
- The claim to universality 15
- Beauty as aesthetic merit 19
- The appearance of universality 22
- 2 The Description of Taste II: The Role of Concepts 29
- Free and dependent beauty 30
- The aesthetic idea 33
- The standard of taste 38
- The freedom of free beauty 41
- 3 The Grounds of Taste 51
- 4 The Sublime 59
- The form and feeling of the sublime 59
- The grounds of the sublime 62
- The distinction between the sublime and the beautiful 66
- The sublime as dependent beauty 68
- 5 Reason and Morality in the Sublime 76
- Reason in the sublime 76
- The moral law and its sublimity 79
- The occasion for subreption 86
- 6 The Anatomy of an Aesthetic Idea 90
- The 'true' and 'false' sublime 93
- Self-love in the sublime 95
- The aesthetic idea in the sublime 99
- 7 Fantastic Desires I: Dependent Beauty 107
- Illustration of the aesthetic idea 109
- Poetry and rhetoric 118
- 8 Fantastic Desires II: Free Beauty 123
- The mistake 124
- Kant's treatment of the mistake 129
- The determination of free beauty 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-197) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0826471986
- OCLC:
- 55014856
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