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The Kantian Aesthetic: From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde
Contributor(s): Crowther, Paul (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199579970     ISBN-13: 9780199579976
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $99.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Epistemology
Dewey: 111.85
LCCN: 2009941583
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.88 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2010
 
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The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms,
respectively, categories and schemata. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is shown that these judgments must involve categories and fundamental schemata (even though Kant himself, and most commentators after him, have not fully appreciated the fact). It is argued, in turn, that
this shows the aesthetic to be not just one kind of pleasurable experience amongst others, but one based on factors necessary to objective knowledge and personal identity, and which, indeed, itself plays a role in how these capacities develop.

In order to explain how individual aesthetic judgments are justified, and the aesthetic basis of art, however, the Kantian position just outlined has to be developed further. This is done by exploring some of his other ideas concerning how critical comparisons inform our cultivation of taste, and
art's relation to genius. By linking the points made earlier to a more developed account of this horizon of critical comparisons, a Kantian approach can be shown to be both a satisfying and comprehensive explanation of the cognitive basis of aesthetic experiences. It is shown also that the approach
can even cover some of the kinds of avant-garde works which were thought previously to limit its relevance.
 
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