Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality.

THIS IMPORTANT book contains four new and six previously published essays on Kant's aesthetics written by Professor Guyer since the publication of his influential study Kant and the Claims of Taste in 1979. A valuable introductory chapter sets the essays in context, explains the author's modifications of view in the last decade and a half and reflects on other recent writing. The book as a whole consolidates Guyer's position among the foremost contemporary interpreters of the Critique of Judgement, and is indispensable reading for anyone concerned to make sense of Kant's powerful, fascinating but elusive text.

Guyer's essays lead us masterfully through the intricacies of Kant's views on the disinterestedness of taste, the moral significance of aesthetic experience, the autonomy of artistic creation, the nature of genius, the sublime and the beautiful, and the contrast between natural and artistic beauty. In addition there are …