The Critique of Judgment

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The Critique of Judgment (1790) completes Immanuel Kant's critical trilogy by mediating between the realms of nature and freedom established in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. In its two great divisions-the critique of aesthetic judgment and the critique of teleological judgment-Kant investigates beauty, sublimity, genius, taste, purposiveness, and the apparent design of organisms. Its style is rigorous, architectonic, and often demanding, yet it remains one of the foundational texts of modern aesthetics and post-Enlightenment philosophy. Kant, the Königsberg philosopher whose disciplined life belied the revolutionary force of his thought, wrote this work after transforming metaphysics and moral philosophy through his earlier critiques. His concern was systematic: to explain how reflective judgment allows human beings to find order, meaning, and communicability in experience without collapsing science into theology or morality into nature. This book is indispensable for readers interested in philosophy, art theory, literary criticism, theology, or intellectual history. Though challenging, it rewards patient study with a profound account of how humans judge beauty, confront the sublime, and interpret living nature.

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Pagina's: 216, Paperback, Sharp Ink