Kant's ›Critique of Aesthetic Judgment‹ in the 20th Century

A Companion to Its Main Interpretations

Stefano Marino, Pietro Terzi, Stefano Marino, Pietro Terzi

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783110592818
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

Kant's Critique of Judgment represents one of the most important texts in modern philosophy. However, while its importance for 19th-century philosophy has been widely acknowledged, scholars have often overlooked its far-reaching influence on 20th-century thought.

This book aims to account for the various interpretations of Kant's notion of aesthetic judgment formulated in the last century. The book approaches the subject matter from both a historical and a theoretical point of view and in relation to different cultural contexts, also exploring in an unprecedented way its influence on some very up-to-date philosophical developments and trends. It represents the first choral and comprehensive study on this missing piece in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy, capable of cutting in a unique way across different traditions, movements and geographical areas. All main themes of Kant's aesthetics are investigated in this book, while at the same time showing how they have been interpreted in very different ways in the 20th century.

With contributions by Alessandro Bertinetto, Patrice Canivez, Dario Cecchi, Diarmuid Costello, Nicola Emery, Serena Feloj, Günter Figal, Tom Huhn, Hans-Peter Krüger, Thomas W. Leddy, Stefano Marino, Claudio Paolucci, Anne Sauvagnargues, Dennis J. Schmidt, Arno Schubbach, Scott R. Stroud, Thomas Teufel, and Pietro Terzi.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction The Twentieth-Century Afterlife of Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment”
• The Unity and Plurality of Culture Seminal Neo-Kantian Readings of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment
• Blank Spaces and Blank Spots Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in Heidegger’s Philosophy and in Phenomenological Aesthetics until Today
• The Place of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
• Modern Research Procedures and their Conflicts in View of Dignity Helmuth Plessner’s First Transformation of the Kantian Critique of the Power of Judgment (1920)
• Disinterest and an Overabundance of Subjectivity Theodor W. Adorno on Kant’s Third Critique
• Kant, Max Horkheimer and Picasso The Critical Community of Judgment
• Think for Oneself and Broad-Minded Thinking Hannah Arendt on Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment
• Eric Weil’s Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment
• The Discordant Accord of the Faculties Deleuzian Readings of Kant
• “Through Königsbergian Mists” What Derrida Found in Kant’s Third Critique
• Exceeding Exposures Jean-François Lyotard and Kant’s Sublime
• Reflective Judgment, Abduction and Predictive Processing About Umberto Eco’s Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of the Power Judgment
• Aesthetic Experience and Its Values John Dewey’s Pragmatist Challenge to Kantian Aesthetics
• Retrieving Kant’s Aesthetics for Art Theory After Greenberg Some Remarks on Arthur C. Danto and Thierry de Duve
• Stanley Cavell and the Critique of the Linguistic Power of Judgment
• Kant’s Concept of Power of Judgment and the Logic of Artistic Improvisation
• Kant and Everyday Aesthetics
• About the Contributors
• Index of Concepts
• Index of Names