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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009209434

ISBN-139781009209434

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Book TitleOrigins of Kant's Aesthetics

Number of Pages279 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, History & Surveys / Modern

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorRobert R. Clewis

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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LCCN2022-029795

Reviews'... a dense history of aesthetics and a close reading of Kant's philosophy at the same time - which makes it interesting to scholars who are quite familiar with Kant's predecessors and contemporaries as well as with the work of scholars who specialise on Kant. However, it might prove to be a compass to young scholars as well who are beginning to navigate Kant's philosophy. ... Clewis's monograph needs to be read for its innovative practice of turning a work of art theory into a text in itself that needs to be supplemented with a number of other sources rather than being taken for granted.' Soni Wadhwa, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal193

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Aesthetic Judgment and Beauty: 1. On Rules of Taste; 2. Beauty Free; 3. Beauty Grounded; Part II. Genius and the Fine Arts: 4. Genius, Thick and Thin; 5. Classifying the Fine Arts; Part III. Negative and Positive States: 6. Meet the Sublime Now: It's a Negative Pleasure; 7. Ugliness and Disgust: Disagreeable Sensations; 8 Playing with Humor; Closing Reflections.

SynopsisOrganized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors such as Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Georg Meier, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Sulzer, Johann Herder, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Henry Home, Charles Batteux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. His resulting study uncovers and illuminates the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory and will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts., Organized around eight core themes in aesthetics today, this book uncovers the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory. It will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts.

LC Classification NumberB2799.A4C54 2023