Kant's Aesthetic Theory: The Beautiful and Agreeable

by David Berger

Book Overview

Taste is ordinarily thought of in terms of two very different idioms - a normative idiom of taste as a standard of appraisal and a non-normative idiom of taste as a purely personal matter. Kant attempts to capture this twofold conception of taste within the terms of his mature critical philosophy by distinguishing between the beautiful and the agreeable. Scholars have largely taken Kant's distinction for granted, but David Berger argues that it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826435807
• ISBN13: 9780826435804
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"