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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Judgments of Taste and Analysis of the Problem of Ugliness in Kant’s Aesthetics
• Chapter 3 The Concept of Freedom in the Play of Imagination and Understanding
• Chapter 4 A Positive Account of the Concept of Free Play
• Chapter 5 The Explanation of Ugliness in Kant’s Aesthetics
• Chapter 6 The Notion of Disgust in Comparison to Ugliness: A Kantian Perspective
• Bibliography.