Critique of Judgement (Oxford World's Classics)

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In the Critique of Judgement Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste aesthetic disinterestedness the relation of art and nature the role of imagination genius and originality the limits of representation and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the degree in which nature has a purpose with respect to the highest interests of reason and enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists writers and philosophers of the classical and romantic period including Hegel Schelling Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. In addition it has remained a landmark work in fields such as phenomenology hermeneutics the Frankfurt School analytical aesthetics and contemporary critical theory. Today it remains an essential work of philosophy and required reading for all with an interest in aesthetics.