Critique of the Power of Judgment
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I. Literary Theory and
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1. History of Literary Theory and
Criticism until 1930
Immanuel Kant.
Introduction, “Analytic of the Beautiful”, and “Analytic of the
Sublime” in Critique of the Power of
Judgment.
Supporting References:
- “Immanuel Kant.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. 499-504. Print.
- Rohlf, Michael. "Immanuel Kant." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Fall Edition. 2010. Web. 14 Aug 2013.
The article with
URL( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/
) offers an overview of Kant and less a discussion on the above-cited
text.
“Immanuel Kant
(1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He
synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms
for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and
continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other
fields. The fundamental idea of Kant's “critical philosophy” —
especially in his three Critiques: the Critique of Pure Reason (1781,
1787), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Critique of
the Power of Judgment (1790) — is human autonomy. He argues that
the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature
that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself
the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and
immortality. Therefore, scientific knowledge, morality, and religious
belief are mutually consistent and secure because they all rest on
the same foundation of human autonomy, which is also the final end of
nature according to the teleological worldview of reflecting judgment
that Kant introduces to unify the theoretical and practical parts of
his philosophical system.”
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