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Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

Küplen, Mojca

Paperback

Series: Studies in German Idealism, Book 17

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3319366165
ISBN13: 9783319366166
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 15 2016
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant's theory of taste, which was put forward in part one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant's central notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness.

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