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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Immanuel Kant
- 1Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- 1Art Criticism
- 1Christian Wolff
- 1Critique of Judgment
- 1Deduction
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Fall 2016
My dissertation explores the role of art criticism within Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory and its relevance for the particularism-generalism debate in contemporary aesthetics. In doing so, it provides a Kantian answer to the meta-critical question that generated the particularism-generalism...
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Location, Location, Location: An Alternative View Concerning the Location of the Deduction in Kant’s Third Critique
DownloadSpring 2010
The project of the Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment consists in providing a ground for judgments of taste so that we are justified in claiming that everybody else can agree with our judgment (‘subjective universality’) and that all others ought to agree with us (‘subjective necessity,’...