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

by Mojca Kuplen and Mojca Küplen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319366165
• ISBN13: 9783319366166
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"