Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime. / Immanuel Kant. Translated by John T. Goldthwait.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Contributor:

Goldthwait, John T., translator.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Beobachtungen über das gefuhl des Schönen und Erhabenen. English. 1960

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 124 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1960.

Summary:

'This early aesthetic work of Kant...is clearly and simply written and shows a deep understanding of human nature. What emerges from its pages is that far fro being a dry-as-dust pedant, Kant was a man of warmth, feeling, and humour, and possessed an acute sensitivity for the different shades of aesthetic experience.

Contents:

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Section One: Of the distinct objects of the feeling of the beautiful and sublime

Section Two: Of the attributes of the beautiful and sublime in man in general

Section Three: Of the distinction of the beautiful and sublime in the interrelations of the two sexes

Section Four: Of national characteristics, so far as they depend upon the distinct feeling of the beautiful and sublime.

Notes:

"Designed by Rita Carroll."

"This is the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics, 'Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen'."--Cover.

Published with variations in 1957 in microfilm form as the translator's thesis, Northwestern University, under title: Kant's pre-critical esthetic.

Bibliographical references included in "Translator's notes" (pages [117]-124)

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "H. Potok May 1961 Philadelphia".

OCLC:

258790