Description
Book SynopsisIncludes twelve of the most important modern critical discussions of the Critique of the Power of Judgment, written by the leading Kant scholars and aestheticians of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewThis well-balanced collection of essays is the foremost, and for a time will certainly be the defnitive, anthology on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment." -- Allen W. Wood, Stanford University
An indispensable collection of essays for every reader of Kant's third Critique. -- Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University
This collection gives an excellent overview of English-language work on the Critique of the Power of Judgement in recent decades. -- Abraham Anderson, St. John's College, Santa Fe * Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online *
This volume is an excellent collection of already classic articles from the past 25 years. It covers the entire spectrum of topics discussed in the Critique of the Power of Judgment with an even mix of helpful explanations of its fundamental issues and provocative suggestions about how best to understand Kant's original insights. -- Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Kant's Principles of Reflecting Judgment Chapter 2 Unkantian Notions of Disinterest Chapter 3 Kant's Aesthetics and the "Empty Cognitive Stock" Chapter 4 The Idealism of Purposiveness Chapter 5 Free and Dependent Beauty Chapter 6 The Sublime in Nature Chapter 7 Kant's Theory of Creative Nature Chapter 8 Artistic Genius and the Question of Creativity Chapter 9 "Aesthetic Ideas" and the Role of Art in Kant's Ethical Hermeneutics Chapter 10 Imaginative Freedom and the German Enlightenment Chapter 11 Newtonian Biology and Kant's Mechanistic Concept of Causality Chapter 12 Kant's Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
