The origins of Kant's aesthetics / Robert R. Clewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clewis, Robert R., 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Philosophy, German--18th century.

Philosophy, German.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors such as Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Georg Meier, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Sulzer, Johann Herder, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Henry Home, Charles Batteux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. His resulting study uncovers and illuminates the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory and will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

On Rules of Taste

Beauty Free

Beauty Grounded

Genius, Thick and Thin

Classifying the Fine Arts

Meet the Sublime Now: It's a Negative Pleasure

Ugliness and Disgust: Disagreeable Sensations

Playing with Humor

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Clewis, Robert R. The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics

ISBN:

9781009209403

100920940X

9781009209410

1009209418

9781009209441

1009209442