Inquiry into the nature of aesthetic theory in its relation to theory of knowledge in Kant's critical philosophy

Güven Özdoyran studied philosophy at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey. He received his doctoral degree from METU and continues his academic studies at Istanbul Arel University, Faculty of Communication. His current research areas are communication theory, media and cultural studies, sociology of communication.

• Acknowledgments ............................................................................................. 111 Introduction .................................................................................................... 132 Kant’s Theory of Reflective Judgment .................................................. 192.1. General Description of Reflective Judgment ........................................... 192.2. The Problematic Relation between Reflective and DeterminativeJudgments ..................................................................................................... 222.2.1. Further Remarks on the Issue .......................................................... 282.3. The Structure of Kant’s Exposition of the Introductions ....................... 322.4. The Principle of Purposiveness, the Principle of Systematicityand Nature: The Need for Reflective Judgment ....................................... 332.5. The Supplementary Notions: Technic of Nature, the Specificationof Nature, Analogy and Symbol ................................................................ 462.6. Kant’s Problematic Transition from the Principle ofPurposiveness and the Principle of Systematicity to the AestheticTheory ........................................................................................................... 572.7. The Arguments on the Problematic Relation between the Theoryof Reflective Judgment and the Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection ....... 603 Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection ....................... 753.1. General Description of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection .................... 753.2. Disinterested Nature of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection .................... 783.3. Subjective Universality: The Universal Voice .......................................... 813.3.1. “The Key to the Critique of Taste”: The First Rupture .................. 873.3.1.1. The Two-Acts View or the Double Processof Reflection ......................................................................... 913.3.1.2. The Counter-Arguments to the Two-Acts Viewand Alternative Explanations ........................................... 1003.4. Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: The Subjective FormalPurposiveness as the Purposiveness without a Purpose ...................... 1063.4.1. Definitions and the Problem of Causal Relation: TheSecond Rupture ............................................................................... 1073.4.2. Transcendental Aesthetic and the Matter of “Aesthetic Form” . 1143.5. Exemplary Necessity and Sensus Communis ........................................ 1243.6. The Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties as the Great Narrativewithout a Narrative: The Third Rupture ................................................. 1293.6.1. Deduction and Kant’s Expositions ................................................ 1303.6.2. Exemplary Arguments for the Harmony of the CognitiveFaculties ............................................................................................ 1374 Stage I: Re-Considering the Faculties: Imagination (andUnderstanding) ............................................................................................ 1494.1. General Descriptions ................................................................................ 1494.2. The Position of Imagination in “A” Deduction ...................................... 1514.3. The Position of Imagination in “B” Deduction ..................................... 1554.3.1. Figurative Synthesis and Intellectual Synthesis ........................... 1604.4. Schematism and the Implications of the Synthesis of Imagination .... 1644.4.1. The Difference between the Apprehension of an Event andthe Apprehension of an Object ...................................................... 1684.5. Re-Examination of the Free Harmony of the CognitiveFaculties: The Last Attempt ...................................................................... 1724.6. Concluding Remarks ................................................................................ 1945 Stage II: Re-Considering the Faculties: Reason (andUnderstanding) ............................................................................................ 1975.1. Reason and Its Relation to Understanding in the System ofTranscendental Dialectic .......................................................................... 1975.2. Transcendental Ideas as the Pure Concepts of Reason ........................ 2025.3. Cosmological Ideas and the Synthesis of Conditions .......................... 2055.3.1. The Distinction between Mathematical Synthesis andDynamical Synthesis ....................................................................... 2075.4. Reason as a Higher Faculty: Regulative Employment of the Ideas ..... 2125.5. Re-Examination of the Principles and the Nature as the Groundfor the Reflective Judgment ..................................................................... 2205.6. Concluding Remarks ................................................................................ 2246 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 227Bibliography ....................................................................................................... 235