The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant's Critique of Taste

by Susan Meld Shell

This Element examines the entirety of Kant's Critique of Taste (in Part One of the Critique of Judgment) with particular emphasis on its political and moral aims. Kant's critical treatment of aesthetic judgment is both an extended theoretical response to influential predecessors and contemporaries, including Rousseau and Herder, and a practical intervention in its own right meant to nudge history forward at a time of civilizational crisis. Attention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009011804
• ISBN13: 9781009011808
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"