Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgement': A Reader's Guide

by Fiona Hughes

Overview

Kant's Critique of Judgment is one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. It is a classic text, in which Kant elucidates his aesthetic theory, and is an important piece of philosophical writing.
In Kant's 'Critique of Judgment': A Reader's Guide, Fiona Hughes offers a clear and thorough account of this key philosophical work. The book offers a detailed review of the key themes and a lucid commentary that will enable readers to rapidly navigate the text. Concentrating on Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, the first and most commonly read part of this critique, Hughes explores the complex and important ideas inherent in the text and provides a cogent survey of the reception and influence of Kant's work. Geared towards the specific requirements of undergraduate students, this is the ideal companion to study of this most influential of texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826497680
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/07/2010
Series:	Reader's Guides
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Fiona Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex, UK. She has previously taught at Oxford, Edinburgh and York and is the author of Kant's Aesthetics Epistemology (Edinburgh UP, 2007).

Table of Contents

1 Context

2 Overview of Themes

3 Reading the Text

4 Reception and Influence

5 Notes for Further Reading

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Hughes' lucid and insightful commentary allows readers to grasp the importance and abiding interest of Kant's aesthetic theory, while bringing out the intricacies and subtleties of Kant's text." - Sebastian Gardner, University College London, UK

"This extraordinarily careful and clear interpretive reading - section by section - of the first part of Kant's Critique of Judgment will prove an enormous help to students and instructors working through Kant's difficult and challenging masterpiece." - Don Crawford, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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