An Introduction To Kant'S Aesthetics: Core Concepts And Problems

• Explains difficult concepts in plain language, using numerous examples and a helpful glossary.
  
• Proceeds in the same order as Kant’s text for ease of reference and comprehension.
  
• Includes an illuminating foreword by Henry E. Allison.
  
• Offers twenty-six further-reading sections, commenting briefly on books and articles from the English, German, and French, that are relevant for each topic
  
• Provides an extensive bibliography and a chapter summarizing Kant's main points.

Acknowledgments.

About This Book.

Note on the Translation.

Introduction.

The Aesthetic Dimension Between Subject and Object.

The Meaning of “Aesthetic”.

Categories as a Guide.

The “Moments” of a Judgment of Taste.

Part I: Disinterestedness: First Moment.

Disinterestedness as a Subjective Criterion.

Three Kinds of Satisfaction: Agreeable, Beautiful, Good.

Part II: Universality: Second Moment.

The Argument from Self-Reflection: Private, Public, Universal.

Subjective Universality.

A Case of Transcendental Logic.

Singular “but” Universal.

How to read Section 9.

Part III: Purposiveness: Third Moment.

Purpose without Will, Purposiveness without Purpose.

Purposiveness and Form: Charm versus Euler.

Of “Greatest Importance”: Beauty and Perfection.

Beauty: Free, Dependent, and Ideal.

Part IV: Necessity: Fourth Moment.

Exemplary Necessity.

Kant’s Interpretation of the sensus communis.

The Deduction.

PartV: Fine Art, Nature, and Genius.

Fine Art and Why It Must Seem like Nature.

Genius and Taste.

Genius and Aesthetic Ideas.

Part VI: Beyond Beauty.

The Sublime.

Beauty as the Symbol of Morality.

The Analytic, the Dialectic, and the Supersensible.

Part VII: Two Challenges.

Can Kant’s Aesthetics Account for the Ugly?.

Can there be Beauty and Genius in Mathematics?.

Summary and Overview.

Before Kant.

Kant’s Aesthetics.

After Kant.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index