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Alexander Rueger, Kant on Pleasure and Judgment: A Developmental and Interpretive Account, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 225pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009380348.
Reviewed by Michael Walschots, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
In an important footnote of the Critique of Pure Reason (first published in May of 1781), Kant claims that judgments of taste cannot achieve universality because they have no a priori principle: “The putative rules or criteria [of aesthetics] are merely empirical as far as their sources are concerned, and can therefore never serve as a priori rules according to which our judgments of taste must be directed” (A 21n). At the end of 1787, however, Kant writes to Karl Leonard Reinhold that he has “discovered a new sort of a priori principles, different from those heretofore observed” and that he is working on a book called “The Critique of Taste” (10:514). Kant is of course talking about the Critique of Judgment (hereafter KU), eventually…
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