Kantian aesthetics pursued / Anthony Savile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savile, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.

Kant, Immanuel.

Aesthetics.

Judgment (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Concerned with topics at the heart of Kant's aesthetics, this provoking reading of The Critique of Judgement focuses on often misunderstood or neglected themes. Starting from the issues of the truth and justifiability of our critical assertions, Anthony Savile develops Kantian theory broadly across the arts, and shows it working with subtlety and rigour in cases as diverse as music and architecture. New light is thrown on the exemplary necessity of our aesthetic pleasures, on the Antimony of Taste, on the distinction between free and dependent beauty, on the supposed idealism of taste, and on the a priori limits of fine art.Eminently subjective material is here given a place in Kant's overall idealism in a sophisticated discussion that will invite the close attention of Kant scholars and aestheticians alike.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. Taste, Perception and Experience

CHAPTER TWO. Necessity and Taste

CHAPTER THREE. Truth, Taste and the Supersensible

CHAPTER FOUR. Hume, Kant and the Standard of Taste

CHAPTER FIVE. The Idealism of Purposiveness

CHAPTER SIX. The Possibility of Art

CHAPTER SEVEN. Music

CHAPTER EIGHT. Architecture and Sculpture

Index of Topics

Index Locorum

Index of Names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7228-1