The Kantian aesthetic : from knowledge to the Avant-Garde

The Kantian aesthetic : from knowledge to the Avant-Garde / Paul Crowther.

This study explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is shown that these judgments must involve categories and f...

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Main Author: Crowther, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804 > Aesthetics.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Kant, Immanuel > 1724-1804
Kant, Immanuel > Ästhetik.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804 > estetik.
Kant, Immanuel.
Aesthetics.
Art > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics
Art > Philosophy
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The transcendental deduction : objective knowledge and the unity of self-consciousness
  • Imagination and the conditions of knowledge
  • Pure aesthetic judgement : a harmony of imagination and understanding
  • The universality and justification of taste
  • Adherent beauty and the scope of perfection
  • From aesthetic ideas to the avant-garde : the scope of fine art
  • The Kantian sublime revisited
  • Finale.

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