Kant and the Claims of Taste

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

Paul Guyer (Author)

9780521576024, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 May 1997

452 pages
23 x 15.3 x 3 cm, 0.61 kg

'… by far the best book on Kant's theory of taste that has ever been written … it is essential for any serious study of Kant's aesthetics today.' British Journal of Aesthetics

Kant and the Claims of Taste, published here for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become, since its initial publication in 1979, the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics. For this new edition, Paul Guyer has provided a new foreword and has added a chapter on Kant's conception of fine art. This re-issue will complement the author's companion volume, Kant and the Experience of Freedom, which places Kant's aesthetics in its historical context and examines the fundamental connection between Kant's aesthetics and his moral theory.

1. Kant's Early Views
2. The Theory of Reflective Judgment
3. The Harmony of the Faculties
4. A Universal Voice
5. The Disinterestedness of Aesthetic Judgment
6. The Form of Finality
7. The Task of the Deduction
8. The Deduction: First Attempt
9. The Deduction: Second Attempt
10. The Metaphysics of Taste
11. Aesthetics and Morality
12. Kant's conception of fine art.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]