How Beauty Disrupts Space, Time and Thought: Purposiveness Without a Purpose in Kant's Critique of Judgment

Stuart Dalton

E-LOGOS, 2015, vol. 2015, issue 1, 5-14

Abstract: In this essay I explore the phenomenon of "purposiveness without a purpose" in Kant's account of aesthetic judgments. I begin by considering what Kant means by purposiveness in general, and then I analyze the specific "purposiveness without a purpose" that belongs to aesthetic judgments. I analyze the purposiveness without a purpose of the beautiful first in terms of space and then in terms of time. The essay concludes with a consideration of how purposiveness without a purpose makes beauty resistant to thought.

Keywords: Kant; Kantian Aesthetics; Critique of Judgment; Third Critique; Analytic of the Beautiful; Purposiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.409

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