Table of Contents

1. Introduction Rebecca Kukla; Part I. Sensible Particulars and Discursive Judgment: 2. Thinking the particular as contained under the universal Hannah Ginsborg; 3. The necessity of receptivity: exploring a unified account of Kantian sensibility and understanding Richard N. Manning; 4. Acquaintance and cognition Mark Orent; Part II. The Cognitive Structure of Aesthetic Judgment: 5. Dialogue: Paul Guyer and Henry Allison on Kant's Theory of Taste Paul Guyer and Henry Allison; 6. Intensive magnitudes and the normativity of taste Melissa Zinkin; 7. The harmony of the faculties revisited Paul Guyer; 8. Kant's leading thread in the analytic of the beautiful Beatrice Longuenesse; Part III. Creativity, Community, and Reflective Judgment: 9. Reflection, reflective judgment, and aesthetic exemplarity Rudolf A. Makkreel; 10. Understanding aestheticized Kirk Pillow; 11. Unearthing the wonder: a 'Post-Kantian' paradigm in Kant's Critique of Judgment John McCumber.

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This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology.

About the Author

Rebecca Kukla is associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, and has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Victoria. The author of Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies, she has contributed articles on epistemology, aesthetics, eighteenth century philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and bioethics to Philosophical Studies, Inquiry, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Hypatia, among other journals.