Paul Crowther

The Kantian Aesthetic

From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde

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Produktbeschreibung

The Kantian Aesthetic 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. Paul Crowther offers an original and lively approach to the cognitive structure of aesthetic judgment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780199687527
• ISBN-10: 0199687528
• Artikelnr.: 39100169

Autorenporträt

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a former Official Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the author of a number of monographs exploring aesthetics, art history, and the philosophy of culture.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Transcendental Deduction; Objective Knowledge and the Unity of
Self- Consciousness
* 2: Imagination and the Conditions of Knowledge
* 3: Pure Aesthetic Judgment: A Harmony of Imagination and
Understanding
* 4: The Universality and Justification of Taste
* 5: Adherent Beauty and Concepts of Perfection
* 6: From Aesthetic Ideas to the Avant-Garde: The Scope of Fine Art
* 7: The Kantian Sublime Revisited