Kant's Aesthetic

By Mary A. McCloskey

Book Overview

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Kant's Methodology and Presuppositions - Pleasure - The Analytic of the Beautiful: Preliminaries - The First Moment: Disinterested Pleasure - The Aesthetic Attitude? - The Second and Fourth Moments: Communicable Pleasure - The Third Moment: The Form of Finality - The Deduction - The Sublime - Fine Art - Exemplars of Fine Art and Genius - Exemplars of Fine Art and Taste - The Strengths of Kant's Philosophy of Art - The Importance of Aesthetics - End Notes - Bibliography - Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134908798X
• ISBN13: 9781349087983
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"