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Miles Rind

Kant and the Problem of Judgments of Taste

(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1998)

Table of Contents


A NOTE ON CITATIONS, iv

INTRODUCTION, 1

CHAPTER ONE: UNIVERSALITY AND NECESSITY, 11
        1. The Judgment of Taste and Its Claim, 11
        2. Some Recent Interpretations, 14
        3. Guyer’s Interpretation Examined, 20
        4. The Claim of Taste as “Imputation”: Issues of Translation, 28
        5. The Claim of Taste a (Non-Moral) Demand for Agreement, 33
        6. Universal Validity and Universal Communicability, 41
        7. The Meaning of “Universal Concurrence”: Two Problems, 45

CHAPTER TWO: SUBJECTIVITY, 56
        1. Subjective or Objective?, 56
        2. “The Judgment of Taste Is Aesthetic”, 65
        3. Why the Judgment of Taste Must Be Aesthetic, 80
        4. Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Consciousness, 97
        5. The Problem of § 9, 114
        6. A Solution, 129

CHAPTER THREE: THE DEDUCTION, 142
        1. The Task of the Deduction, 142
        2. The Priority Thesis (§ 9), 149
        3. The Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties (§ 9, Continued), 155
        4. The Subjective Formal Condition of a Judgment in General, 168
        5. The “Deduction of Judgments of Taste” (§ 38), 179
        6. The Proto-Deduction (§ 21), 190

CHAPTER FOUR: DISINTERESTEDNESS, 201
        1. The Concept of Disinterestedness, 201
        2. The Argument of § 2 (The Liking for the Beautiful), 210
        3. The Concept of Interest in Kant’s Practical Philosophy, 222
        4. The Argument of § 3 (The Liking for the Agreeable), 234
        5. The Argument of § 4 (The Liking for the Good), 243
        6. The Distinctiveness of Favor, 250

CHAPTER FIVE: PURPOSIVENESS AND FORM, 261
        1. Kant’s Two Theses, 261
        2. Purposiveness as Purpose-likeness, 270
        3. Purposiveness as Expedience, 277
        4. Purposiveness as Causality of Representations, 286
        5. Form as Configuration, 290
        6. Form as Differentia of the Beautiful vis-à-vis the Sublime, 302
        7. Form as the Correlate of Reflection, 308

CHAPTER SIX: TASTE AND REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT, 313
        1. Kant’s Project of a “Critique of Judgment”, 313
        2. The Power of Judgment, 317
        3. Reflective Judgment, 328
        4. The Presupposition of Systematic Order, 335
         5. Systematic Order and Purposiveness, 344
        6. The Judgment of Taste as Judgment of Reflection, 352

BIBLIOGRAPHY, 368


 
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