An Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Judgment: An Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Judgement 1st Edition by Douglas Burnham (PDF)

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Kant’s third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, is regarded as one of the most influential books in the history of aesthetics. This book is designed as a reader’s guide for students trying to work their way, step-by-step, through Kant’s text. It is also a guide to the text-in-context in that it sets Kant’s concepts, language and aims in the context of Kant’s philosophy in general and the late eighteenth century.This is one of the first comprehensive introductions to Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Not only does it include a detailed and full account of Kant’s aesthetic theory (the beautiful, the sublime, genius and fine art), it incorporates an extended discussion of the ‘Critique of Teleological Judgement’, a treatment of Kant’s overall conception of the text and its place in the wider critical system.Designed as an introduction, suitable for undergraduate and first-year postgraduate use, the book assumes no prior knowledge of Kant, or any other particular philosophy. As such, it could be used as a

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Editorial Reviews: Review [Burnham] manages, with great economy, to address every major topic in the Critique of Judgment and masterfully integrates these many different strands into a balanced, coherent account of Kant’s book. [Burnham] manages, with great economy, to address every major topic in the Critique of Judgment and masterfully integrates these many different strands into a balanced, coherent account of Kant’s book. About the Author Douglas Burnham is Professor of Philosophy at the Staffordshire University

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⭐As a senior citizen, I have taken philosophy courses every quarter in the adult education program of a top-ranked college for the last 3 years and had previously studied the Critique of Pure Reason. I have an excellent instructor and bright classmates. Kant, however, can be difficult to understand, and grasping his overall system and particular terminology has not been easy. While this Critique is much easier going than that of Pure Reason, I found Douglas Burnham’s book to be an invaluable review of the first Critique, and a great assistance in comprehending points that I often miss on first reading Kant’s text. It is well written for students at my level.

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⭐, I then went on to reading this study that is just as clear; as in the other study, because it is so concise, it requires reading the corresponding parts of Kant’s text, which is what the ideal commentary should achieve, to lead you to the original. I’m not a professional in philosophy, having an amateur passion for the subject.Still, there is one phrase on p. 111 that puzzled me:”If fine art were merely a matter of taste, then the concept of a purpose that makes the production possible as art would be exceeded, but not encompassed. The beauty and the purpose would be irrelevant to each other.”On p. 113, Burnham writes that a “concept of a purpose” is “what kind of thing the object is meant to be (the idea of genre).” Simple good taste would include, exceed this concept and have a modest form of beauty. But mere taste would not encompass the supplementary purpose, the “aesthetic idea” (“a presentation of the imagination”) that makes a real work of art (with genius).

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