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Книга Critique of Judgement Critique of Judgement Книги Психология, философия Автор: Immanuel Kant Год издания: 2007 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press, USA Страниц: 480 Размер: 1,4 Mb ISBN: 0192806173 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка: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 ofrepresentation, 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, analyticalaesthetics, and contemporary critical theory. Today it remains an essential work of philosophy, and required reading for all with an interest in aesthetics.
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oxford world’s classics CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was born in Königsberg, the capital of Eastern Prussia, and spent his entire life as a writer, teacher, and academic in his home city and its environs. He studied philosophy and the natural sciences at the university between 1740 and 1746. He spent the succeeding years as a house tutor and, subsequently, as a private lecturer, publishing a number of substantial essays and treatises on scientific and philosophical subjects throughout this period. Kant finally became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg in 1770. Over the next ten years, which Wilhelm Dilthey described as the ‘silent decade’, Kant radically revised his earlier ideas and developed an entirely novel conception of the proper method of philosophy, which culminated in his epochmaking Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. He extended his ‘transcendental’ approach in the Critique of Practical Reason of 1786 and the Critique of Judgement in 1790, the work which Kant himself saw as completing the entire ‘critical enterprise’. Throughout the 1790s Kant also produced an abundance of dense contributions to eminently topical questions of ethics, politics, and history, and religion. Kant retired from lecturing in 1796 and died at the beginning of 1804. The Critique of Judgement has proved particularly influential in the continental philosophical tradition and also remains a central point of reference for the contemporary renewal of interest in Kantian thought as a whole. Nicholas Walker has published articles and essays in the field of German philosophy and literature and has translated texts by Adorno, Habermas, Heidegger, and Gadamer. oxford world’s classics For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics have brought readers closer to the world’s great literature. Now with over 700 titles—from the 4,000-year-old myths of Mesopotamia to the twentieth century’s greatest novels—the series makes available lesser-known as well as celebrated writing. The pocket-sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and other literary figures which enriched the experience of reading. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry, religion, philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers. OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS IMMANUEL KANT Critique of Judgement Translated by JAMES CREED MEREDITH Revised, edited, and introduced by NICHOLAS WAL