The Kantian aesthetic : from knowledge to the Avant-Garde / Paul Crowther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowther, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Aesthetics.

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Other Title:

From knowledge to the Avant-Garde

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, respectively, 'categories' and 'schemata'. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is shown that these judgments must involve categories and fundamental schemata (even thoughKant himself, and most commentators after him, have not fully appreciated the fact). It is argued, in turn, that this shows t

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Transcendental Deduction: Objective Knowledge and the Unity of Self-Consciousness; 2. Imagination and the Conditions of Knowledge; 3. Pure Aesthetic Judgement: A Harmony of Imagination and Understanding; 4. The Universality and Justification of Taste; 5. Adherent Beauty and the Scope of Perfection; 6. From Aesthetic Ideas to the Avant-Garde: The Scope of Fine Art; 7. The Kantian Sublime Revisited; Finale; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-968752-8

1-282-49072-9

9786612490729

0-19-157376-0

OCLC:

610439608