Art of Judgement

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This original reading of Kant’s third critique, “The Critique of Judgement-Power”, provides an innovative view of the role of judgement in current theoretical debates, in both the humanities and social sciences. Judgement serves as a focus for interdisciplinary aspirations – spanning theoretical, practical and aesthetic as a site for the exploration of questions of rationality and difference which characterize the “postmodern” condition. This has recognized that judgement is inevitably aporetic and that law and difference are inextricably entwined. This book clarifies some of the issues in the debate through a historical analysis of the third “Critique” which employs both deconstructionist and materialist strategies of interpretation. Cover Title Contents Acknowledgements Preface List of Plates The Aporia of Judgement Part I 1. Beauty under Judgement The Difficulty of Beauty The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth A Certain Beauty of Order 2. Taste and Civil Society Taste and the je ne sais quoi Whig Hellenism The Institutionalization of Beauty and Virtue Critic on the Bench Form and Discrimination Materials for a Good System Taste and the Wealth of Nations Taste and Civil Society 3. Aesthetic and the Police-State Polizei and Philosophy Rational Jurisprudence The Dream Castle of Reason Art and the Lower Faculty Art in the System Aesthetic to Philosophy of History Aesthetic and Police State Part II 4. Judgement before the Critique Orientation in Tradition Theoretical Judgement Practical Judgement Judgement and Pleasure The Riddle of the 'Self-Alienating Understanding' 5. The Critique of Judgement-Power The Critical Text Pleasure and the Technic of Judgement Analytic of the Beautiful Analytic of the Sublime Tradition in the Deduction Life and Finality Life and the Summum Bonum Beyond Judgement Notes The Aporia of Judgement Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Beyond Judgement Bibliography Index