Imaginative Reflection in Aesthetic Judgment and Cognition
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C. Serck-Hanssen and B. Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Kongress, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021
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13th International Kant Congress
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Breitenbach, A. Imaginative Reflection in Aesthetic Judgment and Cognition. C. Serck-Hanssen and B. Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Kongress, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82217
Abstract
Kant is well known for his strict distinction between aesthetic judgments and judgments of
determinate cognition. Aesthetic judgments, and in particular judgments of beauty, are the
domain of the reflecting power of judgment; they involve the free play of imagination and
understanding.1 Judgments of determinate cognition, and in particular empirical cognition, are
the domain of the determining power of judgment; in them the products of the imagination are
subordinated to the concepts and principles of the understanding.2 This contrast
notwithstanding, Kant takes both types of judgment to be related in important ways. Both
involve the same faculties. And in both, these faculties are employed in a way that is
sufficiently similar to warrant treatment in one book: the Critique of the Power of Judgment
develops Kant’s aesthetics as well as key tenets of his theory of cognition.
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2023-03-08
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82217
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334787
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