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Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime

When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, this work shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he was often perceived as
Print Book, English, 2003
2nd paperback ed View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2003
124 pages ; 19 cm
9780520240780, 0520240782
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TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION OBSERVATIONS ON THE FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME SECTION ONE: Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime SECTION Two: Of the Attributes of the Beautiful and Sublime in Man in General SECTION THREE : Of the Distinction of the Beautiful and Sublime in the Interrelations of the Two Sexes SECTION FOUR: Of National Characteristics, so far as They Depend upon the Distinct Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
Originally published: 1960
Translated from the German