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The Aesthetic in Kant

by James Kirwan (Author)

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ISBN: 9780826471987

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Offering a reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", this book draws on the great volume of philosophical work on the text and on the context of 18th Century aesthetics. His text is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative solution to the antinomy of taste, the basic problem of the aesthetic.

Immanent 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'.

ISBN	826471986
ISBN13	9780826471987
Publisher	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Format	Hardback
Publication date	11/03/2004
Pages	224
Weight (grammes)	458
Published in	United Kingdom
Height (mm)	234
Width (mm)	156

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.