Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics

GARY BANHAM divides his time between lecturing at Bolton Institute and teaching philosophy in Adult Education in Manchester. He was awarded a Research Fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University (1994-6) and has lectured in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire (1992-4), Manchester Metropolitan University (1992-3), Keele University (1991) and at Hertford and Balliol Colleges (1989-91). He has published articles on Nietzsche, Derrida, Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce and is co-editing Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity with Charlie Blake for Manchester University Press.

• Acknowledgements Introduction The Three-fold Insertion of the Aesthetic in the Critical System Transcendental Imagination, Schematism and Judgment The Exposition of Pure Judgments of Taste The Analytic of the Sublime The Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments, Fine Art and the Antinomy of the Critique Taste The Teleology of Critique The Exposition of Teleological Judgments The Antinomy of Reflective Judgment Re-treated Chemism, Epigenesis and Community Eschatology and the Ends of Culture Bibliography Index

'Banham's book is, without a doubt, an important contribution to the study of Kant's theory of judgement...The intensity of focus and density of architectonic detail in Banham's writing are impressive...Those studying Habermas's position on modernity would particularly benefit from reading this book, for Habermas seeks to orientate the aesthetic as the realm of experience which overcomes the conceptual divisions exercised by modern thought. Here, in Banham's reading of Kant, we find the aesthetic already being prepared for this role.' - Clive Cazeaux, Kantian Review