This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in
particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the …

One of the stranger conceptions in Immanuel Kant's writings about aesthetics, which is rich
in strange conceptions, is that of aesthetic ideas. Even by the standards of common sense …

In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and
practical philosophy-the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests …

Kant's Critique of Judgment exercised an important influence on the Romantic movement,
with its sanctification of originality, its apotheosis of the creative artist, its repudiation of the …

ESTHETIC THEORY of the eighteenth century had little difficulty accommodating art and
nature to a distinction that we find hard to draw. One kind of experience, one kind of object …

In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's
aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of …

Any discussion of rants influence on romantic thought must pay tribute to the debts Kant
owed (and acknowledged) to earlier writers, in both the English and the German tradition …

Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the
importance of Kant's encounter with Milton's poetry to the formation of Kant's moral and …

It is because her appetite for immediacy is so huge that she feels so powerfully the
impossibility of directing it at a listener-even at a reader. Her hunger for direct language …

For Kant, poetry is the freest, finest art of all. Music and painting depend on sensuous
charms. Poetry offers the most direct presentation of" aesthetic ideas". As Kant's critique …