Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (
2023)
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Abstract
In this book, Lara Ostaric argues that Kant’s seminal Critique of
Judgment is properly understood as completing his Critical system. The
two seemingly disparate halves of the text are unified under this larger
project insofar as both aesthetic and teleological judgment indirectly
exhibit the final end of reason, the Ideas of the highest good and the
postulates, as if obtaining in nature. She relates Kant’s discussion of
aesthetic and teleological judgment to important yet under-explored
concepts in his philosophy, and helps the reader to recognize the
relevance of his aesthetics and teleology for our understanding of fine
arts and genius, the possibility of pure judgments of ugliness, Kant’s
philosophy of history, his philosophy of religion, and his conception
of autonomy. Ostaric’s novel and thoroughly integrative presentation
of Kant’s system will be of interest not only to Kant scholars but also
to those working in religious studies, art history, political theory, and
intellectual history.