Overview

Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is widely held 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 all disciplines concerned with the aesthetic. The Aesthetic in Kant is a new reading of Kant's problematic text. It draws upon the great volume of recent philosophical work on this classic text and on the context of eighteenth century aesthetics. Kant's work is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative to the antinomy of taste - the basic problem of the aesthetic. In Kant's account is a theory of the aesthetic that, far from establishing its 'disinterested' nature, instead makes it symptomatic of what Kant himself describes as the ineradicable human tendency to entertain 'fantastic desires'.

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Author:   James Kirwan (Kansai University, Japan)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9780826487780

ISBN 10:   0826487785
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   22 February 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Part I: The Description of Taste 1.Immediacy and Necessity Part II: The Description of Taste II 2.The Role of Concepts 3.The Grounds of Taste 4.The Sublime 5.Reason and Morality in the Sublime 6.The Anatomy of an Aesthetic Idea Part III: Fantastic Desires I 7.Adherent Beauty Part IV: Fantastic Desires II 8.Free Beauty 9.Conclusion

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James Kirwan is Professor of Philosophy, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.

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