Beschreibung
In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics in his
, Julie N. Books explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Dr. Books provides a unique discussion of Kant's supersensible, illuminating how it cannot justify his
nature of our aesthetic judgments about beauty.
Autorenportrait
Julie N. Books, Esq., received her A.B. with honors from Princeton University, her J.D. from The College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law, her M.A. in philosophy from New York University, and her PhD in philosophy from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Inhalt
Contents: Judgments about Beauty, the Sublime, and the Agreeable – Kant's Four Moments of Judgments about Beauty and How Aesthetic Judgments Are Synthetic A Priori Judgments – Hume's Views and How Standards of Taste and Beauty Vary – The Supersensible, the Nature of Aesthetic Judgments, and the Faculty of Common Sense – The Failure of the Supersensible – Motives for the Supersensible.
