num_pages: 405
description: 'Beauty has purport &amp; significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal &amp; rational' The Critique of Judgement offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful &amp; the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art &amp; nature, the role of imagination, genius &amp; originality, the limits of representation &amp; the connection between morality &amp; the aesthetic. Kant also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the apparent purposiveness of nature with respect to the highest interests of reason &amp; enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists &amp; writers of the classical &amp; romantic period &amp; the philosophy of Hegel &amp; Schelling. It has remained a central point of reference from Schopenhauer &amp; Nietzsche thru to phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics &amp; contemporary critical theory. J. C. Meredith's classic translation has been revised in accordance with standard modern renderings &amp; provided with a bilingual glossary. This edition also includes the important 'First Introduction' that Kant originally composed for the work.
language: English
title: Critique of Judgement
titlecomplete: Critique of Judgement (World's Classics)
genres: Theory, Politics, Academic, Philosophy, German Literature, Nonfiction, 18th Century, Classics, Germany, Art
ratings_count: 8753
publisher: Oxford University Press