What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than
another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been …

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music
enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to …

The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back
to Kant's Critique of Judgment. In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes …

In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin's concept of the
image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin's approach to the topic over the course of …

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This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical
epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of …

Drawing on resources from both the Analytical and Continental traditions, Form and World
argues that a comprehension of Kant's aesthetics is necessary for grasping the scope and …

Few philosophers stand out as boldly as Immanuel Kant. While he did not write as much as
others, his principle works, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and …

Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis
that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics …

This book examines the ways that Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy adopt and
reconfigure the Kantian understanding of" aesthetic presentation." In Kant," aesthetic …