The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics.

Excerpt from Essai Critique sur l'Esthétique de Kant: Thèse Présentée A la Faculté des Lettres de Paris En entreprenant ce travail, je m'étais proposé d'étudier l'esthé tique de Kant dans son développement historique. Étudier un sys tème dans son développement historique consiste à rechercher tout d'abord les sources dont il est émané; a exposer ensuite le système mème, en suivant, autant que possible, la marche suivie par son auteur, en reproduisant, aussi exactement que possible, la manière dont les idées maîtresses qui le constituent ont germé dans son esprit, s'y sont groupées, s'y sont cristallisées; a deter miner enfin les divers mouvements philosophiques auxquels le système a donné l'impulsion, a montrer comment il S'est modifié, quelles conséquences nouvelles on en a tirées, dans quelles com binaisons inattendues il est entre'. Appliquée à la théorie du Beau de Kant, cette méthode m'avait imposé une triple division: les origines de l'esthétique kantienne, l'exposition de cette esthétique et l'étude des systèmes qui en ont jailli. Entre la seconde et la troisième de ces divisions, est venue s'insérer une quatrième, que je n'avais pas tout d'abord prévue, qui, peu à peu, est devenue la partie la plus importante de mon ouvrage et a laquelle est con sacré ce volume tout entier, à savoir l'examen des théories dont je venais de rechercher la naissance lointaine, de décrire l'éclosion et de déterminer les etiets. Je voudrais, avant d'aborder l'objet propre de mon travail, rappeler brièvement les principaux résulw tats que m'a fournis mon enquète sur les origines de l'esthétique de Kant et rappeler aussi la genèse et les propositions maîtresses du système que je me suis donné pour tâche de critiquer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A new translation of Immanuel Kant’s 1790 "Critique of Judgement" in modern American English with the original German in the back for reference. This is Volume IX in the Complete Works of Immanuel Kant from Newcomb Livraria Press. "Herewith I end my whole critical business" Kant states in the preface to his third and final Critique in his core triad of critical philosophical treatises. In his old age, he turned from being Polemic to being prescriptive in his vision for a future of transcendental, rational morality. Here he recaps his whole critical system and breaks out his final thoughts between a Critique of Aesthetic and Teleological Judgment. Between Pure Reason (theoretical) and Practical Reason (law and ethics) stands the mediating Power of Judgement which recognizes the particular in the general and bridges the chasm between sensuality and morality, nature and freedom, manifesting itself to the senses. Kant's Teleological, dialectal understanding of the experience of art is still used today in Modern art theory. His analysis of sublimity as "disinterested pleasure" as an aesthetic experience between the dynamics of the cognitive faculties of sensuality and rationality, creates a paradox of judgment as both subjective and universal. To Kant, the correct recognition of what beauty is, and responding to it authentically (morally), is vital to his entire project.

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The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts ever written. Like Copernicus, Kant dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world. Kant's moderate form of skepticism is known as "transcendental idealism," and its primary tenet is that we cannot know things as they are in themselves because we only know things as they appear to us. His thesis had a monumental influence on the culture of the last two centuries, giving rise to cultural movements and theoretical approaches including: German Idealism, Romanticism, Modernism, Marxism, Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and even Quantum Physics.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works. The text follows the second edition of 1787, with a translation of all first edition passages altered or omitted. For this reissue of Kemp Smith's classic 1929 edition, Gary Banham contributes a major new Bibliography of secondary sources on Kant.