Guyer Paul - Kants Critique of the power of judgment: critical essays

Arendt, Hannah. Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy. Edited by Ronald Beiner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Controversially argues that Kants concept of aesthetic judgment is the basis for his political theory.

Baeumler, Alfred. Das Irrationalittsproblem in der sthetik und Logik des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Kritik der Urteilskraft. 2nd edition. Tbingen: Max Niemeyer, 1967 (original edition: 1923). By a philosopher who later disgraced himself as a Nazi apologist, whose attraction to irrationalism was already evident in this work, it nevertheless remains a valuable source for studying the roots of Kants aesthetics in eighteenth-century thought.

Beck, Lewis White. Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969. A detailed study of German philosophy from the middle ages to Kant, including several chapters on eighteenth-century German aesthetics.

Budd, Malcom. Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry and Music. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1995. Considers Kants contribution to discussions of aesthetic value and of particular arts.

Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Translated by Fritz C. A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1951. Includes a detailed study of European aesthetics before Kant.

. Kants Life and Thought. Translated by James Haden. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981. Originally published in 1918, this was the neo-Kantian Cassirers most extensive treatment of Kant, and its ninety pages on the Critique of the Power of Judgment situates Kants third critique in his larger system.

Caygill, Howard. Art of Judgment. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1989. Relates Kants conception of judgment to eighteenth-century political theory as well as aesthetics.

Derrida, Jacques. The Truth in Painting. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Includes Derridas notorious deconstructive interpretation, arguing that Kants concept of the parergon (frame) undermines any distinction between art and nonart.

Dickie, George. The Century of Taste: The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Argues for the superiority of Humes aesthetics to Kants, in part on the basis of the questionable claim that Kants concept of beauty depends upon his concept of the purposiveness of organisms.

Dumouchel, Daniel. Kant et la Gense de la Subjectivite Esthtique. Paris: Vrin, 1999. An important work on both the background and the development of Kants aesthetics.

Ferry, Luc. Homo Aestheticus: The Invention of Taste in the Democratic Age . Translated by Robert de Loaiza. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Associates the rise of modern aesthetics with the development of political liberalism, situating Kant squarely in this development.

Frster, Eckart, ed. Kants Transcendental Deduction: The Three Critiques and the Opus postumum. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989. Contains a debate between the German scholars Reinhard Brandt and Rolf-Peter Horstmann on the necessity of a deduction in the third Critique . Also contains a famous discussion of Kants ethics by John Rawls.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method . Translated by Garrett Barden and John Cumming. 2nd edition revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. New York: Seabury Press, 1989. This 1960 work on hermeneutics, by the most important student of Martin Heidegger, begins with an influential argument that Kant subjectivized modern aesthetics by focusing on aesthetic experience rather than the work of art.