The significance of Kkant's pure aesthetic judgement

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-121

  Crowther, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 11744385480     PISSN: 00070904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/36.2.109     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. One notable exception is Antony Savile in his The Test of Time (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982) and other works.
2. For an alternative interpretation of the 'final end', see R. K. Elliott's 'The Unity of Kant's Critique of Judgement', British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1968, pp. 244-259.
3. See for example my The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)
4. and Chapters 3, 7, and 8 of my Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
5. In this section, I will be addressing Kant's arguments as adumbrated in §§ 1-5 of Book I of The Critique of Judgement, trans. J. C. Meredith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
6. A very detailed and penetrating alternative reading of Kant's treatment of pleasure and disinterestedness can be found in Chapter 5 of Paul Guyer's Kant and the Claims of Taste (Cambridge and London: Harvard U.P., 1979). Like many other commentators on Kant, Guyer's approach to these topics tends to multiply the internal problematics of Kant's position, in a way that loses sight of the general validity of specific points.
7. For a critical discussion of some of the general issues involved here see my review article 'Sociological Imperialism and the Field of Cultural Production; The Case of Bourdieu' in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. II, No. 1, 1994, pp. 155-169.
8. See especially the first edition version of 'The Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding' in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N. Kemp-Smith (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 128-150.
9. Interestingly, Dieter Henrich does take an approach with some similarities to mine, in terms of his notion of 'the conditions of a possible conceptualisation in general' (see his Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World, Stanford: Stanford U.P., 1992). However, he does not bring in fully the role of the categories. Indeed, like Guyer and Ginsborg (and many others) his interpretative attentiveness to the details of Kant's text is not matched by a corresponding phenomenological attentiveness to the concrete experience of beautiful configurations. If, however, we are interested in the validity of Kant's claim, this latter consideration should be of decisive importance.
10. See for example Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. and ed. L. W. Beck, (New York and London: Garland Publishing Co., 1976), pp. 220-221.
11. See for example Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. R. Nice (London: Routledge and Kegan-Paul, 1984), pp. 485-500.