The Aesthetic Use of the Logical Functions in Kant's Third Critique

Stephanie Adair

Published by De Gruyter 2018

The Aesthetic Use of the Logical Functions in Kant's Third Critique

Stephanie Adair

Volume 202 in the series Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110576078

About this book

In the third Critique Kant details an aesthetic operation of judgment that is surprising considering how judgment functioned in the first Critique. In this book, I defend an understanding of Kant’s theory of Geschmacksurteil as detailing an operation of the faculties that does not violate the cognitive structure laid out in the first Critique. My orientation is primarily epistemological, elaborating the determinations that govern the activity of pure aesthetic judging that specify it as a "bestimmte" type of judgment without transforming it into "ein bestimmendes Urteil". I focus on identifying how the logical functions from the table of judgments operate in the pure aesthetic judgment of taste to reveal "the moments to which this power of judgment attends in its reflection" (CPJ, 5:203). In the course of doing so, a picture emerges of how the world is not just cognizable in a Kantian framework but also charged with human feeling, acquiring the inexhaustible, inchoate meaningfulness that incites "much thinking" (CPJ, 5:315). The universal communicability of aesthetic pleasure serves as the foundation that grounds robust intersubjective relations, enabling genuine connection to others through a shared a priori feeling.

Author / Editor information

Stephanie Adair, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One: Renegotiating Kantian Constraints, Intuiting without Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter Two: Logical Functions of Judgment and the Layered Solution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter Three: Pleasure Without Interest: Affirming a Negated Interest Through the Infinite Logical Function of Quality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter Four: The Universal Validity of a Singular Judgment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter Five: Disjunctivity and the Form of Purposiveness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Chapter Six: An Exemplary, Conditioned Necessity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Copyright year: 2018
Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students and Professors in Philosophy.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 299
Keywords: Kant; Immanuel; aesthetics; epistemology

eBook

Published: June 25, 2018
ISBN: 9783110576078

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Published: June 25, 2018
ISBN: 9783110574791

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710250

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