Kant's Aesthetic Theory

David Berger teaches philosophy at the University of Michigan, USA.

• 1. The Twofold Conception of Taste; 2. The Beautiful and the Agreeable; 3. Sensations and Interests; 4. Some Varieties of Normativity; Bibliography; Index.

"Berger presents a lively, fresh and philosophically engaging interpretation of Kant's theory of the beautiful. He sheds a new light on some of the most significant interpretative and philosophical issues raised by Kant's aesthetics, and he engages productively with broader questions regarding the relation between aesthetic and cognitive norms. The book will be of interest not only to Kant scholars but also to readers interested in aesthetics and in the connection between aesthetics and the study of mind and language." - Professor Hannah Ginsborg, University of California Berkeley, USA Mentioned in the Published this Week section, Times Higher Education, August 2009. Addresses an important topic in philosophical aesthetics and in the interpretation of Kant's aesthetic theory in an elegant prose style, and it makes a helpful contribution to our as-yet inadequate understanding of the normative form of judgements of taste.' - British Journal of Aesthetics