The Possibility of Culture : Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant's Aesthetics.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Aesthetics and Culture in Context -- A Pettiness of Soul -- The Disposition to Choose Nothing But Good Ends -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Beauty and Love -- A Need of Being Grateful -- Uniting Gratitude with Love of Man -- Subordinating One's Own Particular Inclination -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Beauty and Disinterestedness -- Regardless of Whether the Object Exists or Not -- Knowing What Sort of a Thing the Object is Intended to Be -- The Mere Representation of the Object -- Sustine et Abstine -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Art, Genius, and Abstraction -- A Beautiful Soul - to Which No Connoisseur or Art Collector Can Lay Claim -- A Contingency of Form -- Through Which Nature Gives the Rule to Art -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Sublimity and Esteem -- Not to Disavow the Moral Self-Esteem of Such a Being -- A Might of the Mind -- By a Certain Subreption -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Choosing Culture Over Happiness -- The Ultimate End of Nature -- The Liberation of the Will -- By the Constitution of Our Understanding -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA.

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