The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics

Robert R. Clewis

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009209403
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009209403

Subjects:: Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy

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Robert R. Clewis
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Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors such as Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Georg Meier, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Sulzer, Johann Herder, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Henry Home, Charles Batteux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. His resulting study uncovers and illuminates the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory and will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts.

‘… a dense history of aesthetics and a close reading of Kant’s philosophy at the same time - which makes it interesting to scholars who are quite familiar with Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries as well as with the work of scholars who specialise on Kant. However, it might prove to be a compass to young scholars as well who are beginning to navigate Kant’s philosophy. … Clewis’s monograph needs to be read for its innovative practice of turning a work of art theory into a text in itself that needs to be supplemented with a number of other sources rather than being taken for granted.’

Soni Wadhwa Source: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

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The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics
pp i-ii

The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Figures
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-xi

A Note on Citations
pp xii-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Aesthetic Judgment and Beauty
pp 21-100

1 - On Rules of Taste
pp 23-50

2 - Beauty Free
pp 51-69

3 - Beauty Grounded
pp 70-100

Part II - Genius and the Fine Arts
pp 101-148

4 - Genius, Thick and Thin
pp 103-128

5 - Classifying the Fine Arts
pp 129-148

Part III - Negative and Positive States
pp 149-240

6 - Meet the Sublime Now: It’s a Negative Pleasure
pp 151-178

7 - Ugliness and Disgust: Disagreeable Sensations
pp 179-210

8 - Playing with Humor
pp 211-240

Closing Reflections
pp 241-242

Bibliography
pp 243-257

Index
pp 258-266

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