Intoduction To Kant's Aestheti Book

Foreword by Henry E. Allison.

Acknowledgments.

About This Book.

Note on the Translation.

Introduction.

The Aesthetic Dimension Between Subject and Object.

The Meaning of “Aesthetic”.

Categories as a Guide.

The “Moments” of a Judgment of Taste.

Part I: Disinterestedness: First Moment.

Disinterestedness as a Subjective Criterion.

Three Kinds of Satisfaction: Agreeable, Beautiful, Good.

Part II: Universality: Second Moment.

The Argument from Self-Reflection: Private, Public, Universal.

Subjective Universality.

A Case of Transcendental Logic.

Singular “but” Universal.

How to read Section 9.

Part III: Purposiveness: Third Moment.

Purpose without Will, Purposiveness without Purpose.

Purposiveness and Form: Charm versus Euler.

Of “Greatest Importance”: Beauty and Perfection.

Beauty: Free, Dependent, and Ideal.

Part IV: Necessity: Fourth Moment.

Exemplary Necessity.

Kant’s Interpretation of the sensus communis.

The Deduction.

PartV: Fine Art, Nature, and Genius.

Fine Art and Why It Must Seem like Nature.

Genius and Taste.

Genius and Aesthetic Ideas.

Part VI: Beyond Beauty.

The Sublime.

Beauty as the Symbol of Morality.

The Analytic, the Dialectic, and the Supersensible.

Part VII: Two Challenges.

Can Kant’s Aesthetics Account for the Ugly?.

Can there be Beauty and Genius in Mathematics?.

Summary and Overview.

Before Kant.

Kant’s Aesthetics.

After Kant.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index