Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment

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• Kant's Theory of Taste *
• Modern European Philosophy *
• Title Page *
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations and Translations xiii
• Introduction 1
• I - Kant's Conception of Reflective Judgment 11
• 1 - Reflective Judgment and the Purposiveness of Nature 13
• 2 - Reflection and Taste in the Introductions 43
• II - The Quid Facti and the Quid Juris in the Domain of Taste 65
• 3 - An Overview 67
• 4 - The Disinterestedness of the Pure Judgment of Taste 85
• 5 - Subjective Universality, the Universal Voice, and the Harmony of the Faculties 98
• 6 - Beauty, Purposiveness, and Form 119
• 7 - The Modality of Taste and the Sensus Communis 144

• Kant's Theory of Taste *
• Modern European Philosophy *
• Title Page *
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations and Translations xiii
• Introduction 1
• I - Kant's Conception of Reflective Judgment 11
• 1 - Reflective Judgment and the Purposiveness of Nature 13
• 2 - Reflection and Taste in the Introductions 43
• II - The Quid Facti and the Quid Juris in the Domain of Taste 65
• 3 - An Overview 67
• 4 - The Disinterestedness of the Pure Judgment of Taste 85
• 5 - Subjective Universality, the Universal Voice, and the Harmony of the Faculties 98
• 6 - Beauty, Purposiveness, and Form 119
• 7 - The Modality of Taste and the Sensus Communis 144
• 8 - The Deduction of Pure Judgments of Taste 160
• III - The Moral and Systematic Significance of Taste 193
• 9 - Reflective Judgment and the Transition from Nature to Freedom 195
• 10 - The Moral Significance of Natural Beauty 219
• 11 - The Antinomy of Taste and Beauty as a Symbol of Morality 236
• IV - Parerga to the Theory of Taste 269
• 12 - Fine Art and Genius 271
• 13 - The Sublime 302
• Notes 345
• Bibliography 405
• Index 415