Directed
Discussion Seminar
Primary Text: Immanuel Kant, Kritik
der Urteilskraft; Critique of
Judgment, translated by Werner Pluhar, Hackett, 1987
Secondary Text: Henry Allison, Kant’s Theory of Taste,
Schedule
Week 1 ~ Logistics
Week 2 ~ Preface and Introduction; Allison, chapters 1 and 9
Week 3 ~ Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, First Introduction;
Allison, chapter 2
Week 4 ~ First moment, §§1-5; Allison, chapters 3-4
Week 5 ~ Second moment, §§6-9; Allison, chapter 5
Week 6 ~ Third moment, §§10-17; Allison, chapter 6
Week 7 ~ Fourth moment, §§18-22, and General Remark; Allison,
chapter 7
Week 8 ~ Analytic of the Sublime, §§23-29; Allison, chapter 13
Week 9 ~ Spring Break
Week 10 ~ The Deduction §§30-39; Allison, chapter 8
Week 11 ~ Beauty and
Interest, §§40-42; Allison, chapter 10
Week 12 ~ The Fine Arts, §§43-54; Allison, chapter 12
Week 13 ~ Dialectic, §§55-60; Allison, chapter 11
Week 14 ~ Critique of Teleological Judgment, Analytic and Dialectic, §§61-68
Week 15 ~ Doctrine of Method, §§79-91
Week 16 ~ optional, leftovers