| #2680038 in Books | 2003-01-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 385 pages||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Aestheticians and Kant scholars: buy this book now!|By A Customer|Pillow provides a fascinating account of Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics that will prove of great interest to both Kant scholars and to those with a more general interest in aesthetics. The references are particularly useful, such that the book is required reading. This is true despite some serious flaws in the|||Pillow is very effective in relating the aesthetics of Kant and Hegel to contemporary philsophical concerns. His approach is balanced and intelligent and will have a wide appeal to readers in aesthetics, literary theory, and postmodernism. (Rudolf A. Makkreel
The topic of the sublime is making a return to contemporary discourse on aesthetics and cognition. In Sublime Understanding, Kirk Pillow makes sublimity the center of an alternative conception of aesthetic response and interpretation. He draws an aesthetics of sublimity from Kant's Critique of Judgment, bolsters it with help from Hegel, and establishes its place in a broadened conception of human understanding (thus differing from the many scholars who use Hegel to di...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) | Kirk Pillow. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
