Abstract

Foreword by Henry E. Allison. Acknowledgments. About This Book. Note on the Translation. Introduction. The Aesthetic Dimension Between Subject and Object. The Meaning of Aesthetic. Categories as a Guide. The Moments of a Judgment of Taste. Part I: Disinterestedness: First Moment. Disinterestedness as a Subjective Criterion. Three Kinds of Satisfaction: Agreeable, Beautiful, Good. Part II: Universality: Second Moment. The Argument from Self-Reflection: Private, Public, Universal. Subjective Universality. A Case of Transcendental Logic. Singular but Universal. How to read Section 9. Part III: Purposiveness: Third Moment. Purpose without Will, Purposiveness without Purpose. Purposiveness and Form: Charm versus Euler. Of Greatest Importance: Beauty and Perfection. Beauty: Free, Dependent, and Ideal. Part IV: Necessity: Fourth Moment. Exemplary Necessity. Kant's Interpretation of the sensus communis. The Deduction. PartV: Fine Art, Nature, and Genius. Fine Art and Why It Must Seem like Nature. Genius and Taste. Genius and Aesthetic Ideas. Part VI: Beyond Beauty. The Sublime. Beauty as the Symbol of Morality. The Analytic, the Dialectic, and the Supersensible. Part VII: Two Challenges. Can Kant's Aesthetics Account for the Ugly?. Can there be Beauty and Genius in Mathematics?. Summary and Overview. Before Kant. Kant's Aesthetics. After Kant. Glossary. Bibliography. Index

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