Opis: Aesthetic in Kant - James Kirwan, Kirwan

"A very serious undertaking by a scholar who has an excellent knowledge of Kant's philosophy. Kant's aesthetics is a hot topic right now, so this book will be of considerable interest to those in the field." - Donald Crawford, University of Southern California at Santa Barbara. "An alternative account of aesthetic judgment which is rich, interesting and provocative. This is a book which will certainly provoke engagement and debate." - Rachel Jones, Dundee University. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is widely considered 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 other disciplines in which the nature of the aesthetic is an issue. "The Aesthetic in Kant" offers a new reading of Kant's problematic text, drawing on the great volume of recent philosophical work on the text and on the context of eighteenth century aesthetics. Kant's 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'.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.

Szczegóły: Aesthetic in Kant - James Kirwan, Kirwan

Tytuł: Aesthetic in Kant
Autor: James Kirwan, Kirwan
Producent: Continuum Publishers Co
ISBN: 9780826471987
Rok produkcji: 2004
Ilość stron: 224
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.46 kg

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