Critique of JudgmentIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the degree in which nature has a purpose, with respect to the highest interests of reason and enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists, writers, and philosophers of the classical and romantic period, including Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. In addition, it has remained a landmark work in fields such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics, and contemporary critical theory. Today it remains an essential work of philosophy, and required reading for all with an interest in aesthetics. |
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Contents
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is a transcendental principle of Judgment | 13 |
Of the aesthetical representation of the purposiveness | 19 |
Critique of the Aesthetical Judgment | 27 |
Second Moment of the judgment of taste viz according to quantity | 33 |
Third Moment of judgments of taste according to the relation | 40 |
Fourth Moment of the judgment of taste according to | 54 |
Analytic of the Sublime | 61 |
45 Beautiful Art is an art in so far as it seems like nature | 111 |
46 Beautiful Art is the art of genius | 112 |
47 Elucidation and confirmation of the above explanation of Genius | 113 |
48 Of the relation of Genius to Taste | 115 |
49 Of the faculties of the mind that constitute Genius | 117 |
50 Of the combination of Taste with Genius in the products of beautiful Art | 122 |
51 Of the division of the beautiful arts | 123 |
52 Of the combination of beautiful arts in one and the same product | 127 |
24 Of the divisions of an investigation into the feeling of the sublime | 63 |
A Of the Mathematically Sublime | 64 |
26 Of that estimation of the magnitude of natural things which is requisite for the Idea of the Sublime | 66 |
27 Of the quality of the satisfaction in our judgments upon the Sublime | 71 |
B Of the Dynamically Sublime in Nature | 74 |
29 Of the modality of the judgment upon the sublime in nature | 77 |
General remark upon the exposition of the aesthetical reflective Judgment | 79 |
Deduction of pure aesthetical judgments | 82 |
30 The Deduction of aesthetical judgments on the objects of nature must not be directed to what we call Sublime in nature but only to the Beautiful | 90 |
31 Of the method of deduction of judgments of Taste | 91 |
32 First peculiarity of the judgment of Taste | 92 |
33 Second peculiarity of the judgment of Taste | 94 |
34 There is no objective principle of Taste possible | 95 |
35 The principle of Taste is the subjective principle of Judgment in general | 96 |
36 Of the problem of a Deduction of judgments of Taste | 97 |
37 What is properly asserted a priori of an object in a judgment of Taste | 98 |
39 Of the communicability of a sensation | 100 |
40 Of Taste as a kind of sensus communis | 101 |
41 Of the empirical interest in the Beautiful | 103 |
42 Of the intellectual interest in the Beautiful | 105 |
43 Of Art in general | 109 |
44 Of beautiful Art | 110 |
53 Comparison of the respective aesthetical worth of the beautiful arts | 128 |
54 Remark | 131 |
Dialectic of the Aesthetical Judgment | 137 |
57 Solution of the antinomy of Taste | 138 |
58 Of the Idealism of the purposiveness of both Nature and Art as the unique principle of the aesthetical Judgment | 144 |
59 Of Beauty as the symbol of Morality | 148 |
Of the method of Taste | 151 |
Critique of the Teleological Judgment | 153 |
Analytic of the Teleological Judgment | 155 |
63 Of the relative as distinguished from the inner purposiveness of nature | 158 |
64 Of the peculiar character of things as natural purposes | 161 |
65 Things regarded as natural purposes are organised beings | 163 |
66 Of the principle of judging of internal purposiveness in organised beings | 166 |
67 Of the principle of the teleological judging of nature in general as a system of purposes | 167 |
68 Of the principle of Teleology as internal principle of natural science | 170 |
Dialectic of the Teleological Judgment | 173 |
70 Representation of this antinomy | 174 |
71 Preliminary to the solution of the above antinomy | 175 |
72 Of the different systems which deal with the purposiveness of nature | 176 |
Methodology of the Teleological Judgment | 198 |
General remarks on Teleology | 244 |
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Page xv - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life.