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

• Main Author: Küplen, Mojca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in German Idealism, 17
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philology.; Aesthetics.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Classical Studies.; Classical Philosophy.

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 theoretic...