In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Drawing upon her extensive background i…
Biographical note: Der Autor ist Associate Professor für Ethik und politische Philosophie an der NTNU Trondheim Biographical note: The author is associate professor in ethics and political philosophy, Department of Philosophy, NTNU Trond Main description: Ausgangspunkt für die…
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This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great classical German tradition fr…
An important contribution to Kant scholarship. Henry Allison, a pre-eminent interpreter of Kant, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. No one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to…
"Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), the third and last of his critical works, has been recognized as a work of great philosophical import from its first reception; and it continues to draw much attention to this day. It is nevertheless a highly puzzling book and it…
Kant announces that the Critique of the Power of Judgment will bring his entire critical enterprise to an end. But it is by no means agreed upon that it in fact does so and, if it does, how. In this book, Ido Geiger argues that a principal concern of the third Critique is comple…
