Kant and the Claims of Taste, here published for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become since its initial publication in 1979 the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics. For this new edition, Paul Guyer has provided a new foreword and has added a chapter on Kant's conception of fine art.
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Kant and the Claims of Taste, here published for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become since its initial publication in 1979 the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics. For this new edition, Paul Guyer has provided a new forward and ha s added a chapter on Kant's conception of fine art.
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Guyer's critical reading of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is thought provoking, but holds no punches. Guyer reads Kant with a discerning eye, often holding Kant to task for his inability to stick to a coherent methodology in the manner of his first and second critiques. However, aesthetes everywhere know the value of Kant's acknowledgement of beauty and the sublime, and Guyer is no different. Though he goes out of his way to dismantle and rebuild Kant's arguments, memorably in Kant's confusing logic in the arrangement and interaction between the moments in the Analytic of the Beautiful, Guyer's work is rewarding. Upon reading Guyer's analysis, I gained new appreciation for the breadth, and indeed, risk of Kant's third critique.
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Paul Guyer is not only one of the greatest Professors that I have ever had, he is also one of the greatest writers that I have ever read. Dr. Guyer's work on Kant stands above other fine Philosophers' works not only because of its originality, but because of the beauty of his writing. Dr. Guyer, who is currently the President of the American Society for Aesthetics and the American Philosophical Association, won the APA's Best Book prize for Kant and The Claims of Taste upon its initial release in 1979 (Harvard). This work, Dr. Guyer's first monograph, is, along with Kant and The Claims of Taste (Cambridge), one of two Masterworks on Kantian Aesthetics and Epistemology. Both works, particularly when read for the goal of understanding Kant's Philosophy, are insurmountable pieces of Philosophical Literature.
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In December 1787, Kant wrote to his then disciple Karl Leonhard Reinhold that his long-standing interest in a "Critique of Taste" was suddenly beginning to bear fruit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal imputation, general cognitive objective, supersensible substratum, subjective finality, priori imputation, priori principle for taste, particular aesthetic judgments, intersubjective validity, formal finality, determinate empirical concepts, intersubjective acceptability, universal subjective validity, dependent beauty, supersensible ground, disinterestedness cannot, own mental history, pure aesthetic judgment, subjective universal validity, good moral disposition, quantitative perfection, supersensible basis, universal communicability, own cognitive faculties, qualitative perfection, aesthetic judgment cannot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Analytic of the Beautiful, Critique of Pure Reason, Analytic of the Sublime, Transcendental Aesthetic, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Logik Blomberg New!
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In December 1787, Kant wrote to his then disciple Karl Leonhard Reinhold that his long-standing interest in a "Critique of Taste" was suddenly beginning to bear fruit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal imputation, general cognitive objective, supersensible substratum, subjective finality, priori imputation, priori principle for taste, particular aesthetic judgments, intersubjective validity, formal finality, determinate empirical concepts, intersubjective acceptability, universal subjective validity, dependent beauty, supersensible ground, disinterestedness cannot, own mental history, pure aesthetic judgment, subjective universal validity, good moral disposition, quantitative perfection, supersensible basis, universal communicability, own cognitive faculties, qualitative perfection, aesthetic judgment cannot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Analytic of the Beautiful, Critique of Pure Reason, Analytic of the Sublime, Transcendental Aesthetic, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Logik Blomberg New!
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- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 13 pages
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