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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics

[Hardback]

by Kalar

    • Author

      Kalar

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      October 2006

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      The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics

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      Typically philosophers have either viewed beauty as objective and judgments of beauty as universally valid, or else they have viewed beauty as subjective and regarded judgments of beauty as merely private preferences. Immanuel Kant is famous for his unique third path. Kant argues that beauty is subjective, but the judgment of taste about beauty is capable of universal validity. In his view, the beautiful is not a feature of objects themselves, but merely represents the way we respond to objects. Furthermore, the judgment of taste about beauty is a merely "aesthetic" judgment - i.e., one based on a feeling of pleasure we take in the object. The judgment of taste, on the other hand, possesses "universal validity": to call something beautiful is implicitly to "demand" that all others find it beautiful as well. Kant's views about the taste for the beautiful have long been the subject of controversy. Scholars have differed over the interpretation of the demand contained in a judgment of taste and whether Kant's attempt to legitimate this demand is successful. Brent Kalar argues that the demands of taste should be understood as involving a uniquely aesthetic normativity rooted in Kant's cognitive psychology. If the basis of aesthetic pleasure in the activity of the cognitive faculties is properly understood, then Kant's attempt to legitimate the demands of taste may be regarded as a success. This leads Kalar to give a new interpretation of the nature of the beautiful according to Kant that re-examines the relationship between "free play" and the "form of purposiveness" in Kant's aesthetics, and restores the "aesthetic ideas" to their rightful centrality in Kant's theory.

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      • Author

        Kalar

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Continuum

      • Published

        October 2006

      • Weight

        445g

      • Page Count

        192

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9780826488909

      • ISBN-10

        0826488900

      • Eden Code

        124724

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      • Author/Creator: Kalar

      • ISBN: 9780826488909

      • Publisher: Continuum

      • Release Date: October 2006

      • Weight: 445g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 124724


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