Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism
Subtitle: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
Contributors: Richard Kearney (Editor); David Rasmussen (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780631216100
First sentence: If we wish to discern whether anything is beautiful or not, we do not refer the representation of it to the Object by means of understanding with a view to cognition, but by means of the imagination (acting perhaps in conjunction with understanding) we refer the representation to the Subject and its feeling of pleasure or displeasure.