Kant's Theory of Taste A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment [Hardcover]

An important study of Kant's aesthetics, from a leading Kant scholar.This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics.An authoritative guide to the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (the first and most important part of the Critique of Judgement), no one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this groundbreaking study.This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics.An authoritative guide to the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (the first and most important part of the Critique of Judgement), no one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this groundbreaking study.This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. An authoritative guide to the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (the first and most important part of the Critique of Judgment), no one with a serious interest in Kant's aesthetics can afford to ignore this groundbreaking study.Acknowledgments; Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Conception of Reflective Judgment: 1. Reflective judgment and the purposiveness of nature; 2. Reflection and taste in the introductions; Part II. Te Quid Facti and the Quid Juris in the Domain of Taste: 3. The analytic of the beautiful and the quid facti: an overview; 4. The disinterestedness of the pure judgment of taste; 5.l'