LEADER 03742nam 22006251 450 001 9910458960103321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-4588-5 010 $a1-281-29526-4 010 $a9786611295264 010 $a1-84714-450-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472545886 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400890 035 $a(EBL)436619 035 $a(OCoLC)319491672 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10082883 035 $a(PQKB)10769587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224852 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129526 035 $a(OCoLC)893334308 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255621 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400890 100 $a20140929d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe demands of taste in Kant's aesthetics /$fBrent Kalar 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum studies in philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-8890-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [167]-171) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- I. What is Implied in a Judgment of Taste? -- II. The Problem of Free Play -- III. The Problem of the Form of Purposiveness -- IV. Beauty and Aesthetic Ideas -- V. Pleasure and Justification -- Bibliography 330 8 $aTypically philosophers have either viewed beauty as objective and judgments of beauty as universally valid, or else they have viewed beauty as subjective and regarded judgments of beauty as merely private preferences. Immanuel Kant is famous for his unique third path. Kant argues that beauty is subjective, but the judgment of taste about beauty is capable of universal validity. In his view, the beautiful is not a feature of objects themselves, but merely represents the way we respond to objects. Furthermore, the judgment of taste about beauty is a merely 'aesthetic' judgment - i.e., one based on a feeling of pleasure we take in the object. The judgment of taste, on the other hand, possesses 'universal validity': to call something beautiful is implicitly to 'demand' that all others find it beautiful as well. Kant's views about the taste for the beautiful have long been the subject of controversy. Scholars have differed over the interpretation of the demand contained in a judgment of taste and whether Kant's attempt to legitimate this demand is successful. Brent Kalar argues that the demands of taste should be understood as involving a uniquely aesthetic normativity rooted in Kant's cognitive psychology. If the basis of aesthetic pleasure in the activity of the cognitive faculties is properly understood, then Kant's attempt to legitimate the demands of taste may be regarded as a success. This leads Kalar to give a new interpretation of the nature of the beautiful according to Kant that re-examines the relationship between 'free play' and the 'form of purposiveness' in Kant's aesthetics, and restores the 'aesthetic ideas' to their rightful centrality in Kant's theory 410 0$aContinuum studies in philosophy. 606 $aAesthetics, Modern$y18th century 606 $2Philosophy: aesthetics 615 0$aAesthetics, Modern 676 $a111/.85092 700 $aKalar$b Brent$0994227 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458960103321 996 $aThe demands of taste in Kant's aesthetics$92276962 997 $aUNINA