This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which *one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique of Taste in the Third. The author shows us how Kant exonerates the role of faculties that account for such judgments linked by inner senses, inclusive of sensus communis*. By re-examining the role of the aesthetic within Kant's critical philosophy, the compelling force of the aesthetic turn is revealed in modern philosophy. The text includes Heidegger's, Hegel's and Diderot's complex relationship to Kant in this context.

This text provides important scholarship for those interested in the Kantian influence on German Idealism, the aesthetic turn in the continental tradition, especially the Frankfurt school, and more generally, those interested in the encounter between philosophy and art in this historical context.

Offers a unique perspective on the role that aesthetics plays within Kant's critical philosophy and demonstrates how the affective dimension marks his entire project Provides a broad context within which to understand Kant's undertaking Situates Kant's aesthetics within the context of the visual arts, as a theory of mimesis

Autorentext

Tamar Japaridze holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Currently, she is a Professor at the Ilia State University's Faculty of the Arts and Sciences in Georgia. Her research interests are in the areas of the European History of Ideas, the Enlightenment, Ethics, and Aesthetics.

Klappentext

This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique of Taste in the Third. The author shows us how Kant exonerates the role of faculties that account for such judgments linked by inner senses, inclusive of sensus communis. By re-examining the role of the aesthetic within Kant's critical philosophy, the compelling force of the aesthetic turn is revealed in modern philosophy. The text includes Heidegger s, Hegel s and Diderot's complex relationship to Kant in this context. This text provides important scholarship for those interested in the Kantian influence on German Idealism, the aesthetic turn in the continental tradition, especially the Frankfurt school, and more generally, those interested in the encounter between philosophy and art in this historical context.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction. The Project of the Third Critique.- Chapter 2.The Sublime Vision. Kant's Discovery: a priori Sensibility, Pleasure and Pain and the Sensus Communis.- Chapter 3.The Sublime Vision and Beauty/Parergon.- Chapter 4. Art:the Visible.- Chapter 5.Platonism and the Veil of the Goddess of Nature. A Copy Theory of Art.- Chapter 6.The Illusion of Reality- The Molyneax Debate: Cecity as a Philosophical Insight.- Chapter 7. Magnitudes:the Sublime.- Chapter 8. Dennis Diderot and the Secrete Geometry of the Living: Saunderson's Sublime Vision.- Chapter 9. Diderot: An Art Critic; between Honesty and Fidelity.-Chapter 10. The Reception of the Third Critique: German Idealism and Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno. <p