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The origins of Kant's aesthetics /

"Organized 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 no...

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Main Authors: Clewis, Robert R., 1977- (Author)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2023.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Aesthetics.
Philosophy, German > 18th century.
Philosophy, German.
Summary: "Organized 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"--
Carrier Form: xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index.
ISBN: 9781009209427
1009209426
9781009209434
1009209434
Index Number: B2799
CLC: B516.31
Call Number: B516.31/C635
Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Aesthetic judgment and beauty. 1. On rules of taste -- 2. Beauty free -- 3. Beauty grounded -- Part II: Genius and the Fine Arts. 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.

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