Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment‹ in the 20th Century: A Companion to Its Main Interpretations

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Kant’s Critique of Judgment represents one of the most important texts in modern philosophy. However, while its importance for 19th-century philosophy has been widely acknowledged, scholars have often overlooked its far-reaching influence on 20th-century thought. This book aims to account for the various interpretations of Kant’s notion of aesthetic judgment formulated in the last century. The book approaches the subject matter from both a historical and a theoretical point of view and in relation to different cultural contexts, also exploring in an unprecedented way its influence on some very up-to-date philosophical developments and trends. It represents the first choral and comprehensive study on this missing piece in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy, capable of cutting in a unique way across different traditions, movements and geographical areas. All main themes of Kant’s aesthetics are investigated in this book, while at the same time showing how they have been interpreted in very different ways in the 20th century. With contributions by Alessandro Bertinetto, Patrice Canivez, Dario Cecchi, Diarmuid Costello, Nicola Emery, Serena Feloj, Günter Figal, Tom Huhn, Hans-Peter Krüger, Thomas W. Leddy, Stefano Marino, Claudio Paolucci, Anne Sauvagnargues, Dennis J. Schmidt, Arno Schubbach, Scott R. Stroud, Thomas Teufel, and Pietro Terzi. Acknowledgments Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction The Unity and Plurality of Culture Blank Spaces and Blank Spots The Place of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Modern Research Procedures and their Conflicts in View of Dignity Disinterest and an Overabundance of Subjectivity Kant, Max Horkheimer and Picasso Think for Oneself and Broad-Minded Thinking Eric Weil’s Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment The Discordant Accord of the Faculties “Through Königsbergian Mists” Exceeding Exposures Reflective Judgment, Abduction and Predictive Processing Aesthetic Experience and Its Values Retrieving Kant’s Aesthetics for Art Theory After Greenberg Stanley Cavell and the Critique of the Linguistic Power of Judgment Kant’s Concept of Power of Judgment and the Logic of Artistic Improvisation Kant and Everyday Aesthetics About the Contributors Index of Concepts Index of Names