Kant on Pleasure and Judgment - A Developmental and Interpretive Account

A novel interpretation of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, based on an exploration of eighteenth-century theories of pleasure and a reconstruction of Kant's own view. Illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant's thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The early reception of the third Critique; 2. The completion of the system of the powers of the mind, 1770-1790; 3. Kant's theory of the feeling of pleasure and displeasure (I); 4. Kant's theory of the feeling of pleasure and displeasure (II); 5. Consequences of the theory; 6. The principle(s) of the reflecting power of judgment; 7. The interest of the reflecting power of judgment and the deduction of judgments of taste; 8. The imagination in its freedom; 9. The transition from nature to freedom; Conclusion: the autonomy of taste; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Alexander Rueger is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. He has published widely in the history and philosophy of science and on Kant's aesthetics.

Summary

A novel interpretation of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, based on an exploration of eighteenth-century theories of pleasure and a reconstruction of Kant's own view. Illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant's thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Rueger, Alexander (University of Alberta) Rueger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009380348
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938034-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Ethics & moral philosophy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Philosophy: aesthetics, Central Europe, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, C 1700 To C 1800, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge