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Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination - An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination - An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Studies in German Idealism, 17
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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 theoretical framework of philosophical
aesthetics, Kant's theory of taste, which was put forward in part
one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the
possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic
concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a
debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics
should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book
critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant's central
notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers
a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the
possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness. In
addition, the book also applies an interpretation of ugliness in
Kant's aesthetics to resolve certain issues that have been raised
in contemporary aesthetics, namely the possibility of appreciating
artistic and natural ugliness and the role of disgust in artistic
representation. Offering a theoretical and practical analysis of
different kinds of negative aesthetic experiences, this book will
help readers acquire a better understanding of his or her own
evaluative processes, which may be helpful in coping with complex
aesthetic experiences. Readers will gain unique insight into how
ugliness can be offensive, yet, at the same time, fascinating,
interesting and captivating.
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