Critique of Judgement

'Beauty has purport significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal rational' The Critique of Judgement offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art nature, the role of imagination, genius originality, the limits of representation the connection between morality the aesthetic. Kant also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the apparent purposiveness of nature with respect to the highest interests of reason enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists writers of the classical romantic period the philosophy of Hegel Schelling. It has remained a central point of reference from Schopenhauer Nietzsche thru to phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics contemporary critical theory. J. C. Meredith's classic translation has been revised in accordance with standard modern renderings provided with a bilingual glossary. This edition also includes the important 'First Introduction' that Kant originally composed for the work.