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Author Zuckert, Rachel.

Title Kant on beauty and biology : an interpretation of the Critique of judgment / Rachel Zuckert.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Modern European philosophy
Modern European philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-395) and index.
Contents The problem : the unity of the diverse -- Reflective judgment and its principle : preliminary remarks -- The analytic of teleological judgment : purposive unity is the 'highest formal unity' -- A merely subjective principle : time and the 'peculiarities' of our intellects -- Beautiful objects : subjectively purposive form -- Aesthetic pleasure : the feeling of subjective, projective temporality -- The free harmony of the faculties : purposiveness as the principle of aesthetic Beurteilung -- The justification of aesthetic judgment : purposiveness as the principle of reflective judging.
Summary Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that, on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a whole that we do not completely understand according to preconceived categories. This ability is necessary, moreover, for human beings to gain knowledge of nature in its empirical character as it is, not as we might assume it to be. Her wide-ranging and original study will be valuable for readers in all areas of Kant's philosophy. Book jacket.
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.
Kritik der Urteilskraft (Kant, Immanuel)
Kritik der Urteilskraft.
Judgment (Aesthetics)
Judgment (Aesthetics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zuckert, Rachel. Kant on beauty and biology. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521865890 0521865891 (DLC) 2007282238 (OCoLC)137222326
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