title: The Aesthetic in Kant (Continuum Studies in Philosophy)
author:  James Kirwan 
description: James Kirwan is Associate Professor in the Dept of Anglo-American Studies at Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japan, and author of Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics (Routledge, 1990), Beauty (Manchester University Press, 1999), and Sublimity (Routledge, 2004).
zlib_text: The Aesthetic in Kant:
  A Critique
  JAMES KIRWAN
  Continuum
  
  The Aesthetic in Kant
  A Critique
  
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  The Aesthetic in Kant
  A Critique
  JAMES KIRWAN
  
  Continuum
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  ISBN: 0-8264-7198-6
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  Contents
  Acknowledgements
  vii
  Introduction
  1
  1 The Description of Taste I: Immediacy and Necessity
  12
  The subjectivity of the judgement of taste
  13
  The claim to universality
  