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" One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve complete indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. "
The Simplest of Signs: Victor Hugo and the Language of Images in France ... - Page 56
by Timothy Bell Raser - 2004 - 217 pages
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Kant's Life and Thought

Ernst Cassirer - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 460 pages
...is very partial and not a pure judgment of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste."21 The peculiarity of aesthetic self-activity, and hence the special nature of aesthetic subjectivity,...
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The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary ...

David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 468 pages
...interest, is very partial and not a pure judgement of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...play the part of judge in matters of taste. [Kant goes on to distinguish "the beautiful" from two other forms of the relation of representations to pleasure...
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The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance

Ronald Schenk - Aesthetics - 1992 - 188 pages
...or con' templation is indifferent to the object, therefore free of theoretical or practical concern. "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour...existence of the thing, but must preserve complete indifference."47 Robert Zimmerman suggests that Kant's intention in his notion of indifference is to...
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The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

Peter Kivy - Music - 1993 - 388 pages
...contemplation (intuition or reflection).19 Or, again, "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...order to play the part of judge in matters of taste." At about this stage the concept of disinterestedness came into the hands of Schopenhauer, no doubt...
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Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound

Daniel Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 336 pages
...concerned with the real existence of the thing . . . One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve complete indifference in this respect" (42-43). Thus, the negative pleasure evoked by the image depends not only on the disappearance of the...
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology

Donald Preziosi - Art - 1998 - 610 pages
...beautiful which is tinged with the slightest interest, is very partial and not a pure judgement of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour...order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. This proposition, which is of the utmost importance, cannot be better explained than by contrasting...
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Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice

Michael McGhee - Reference - 2000 - 308 pages
...beautiful which is tinged with the slightest interest is very partial and not a pure judgment of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour...order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. (43) These are two distinct claims. In the first passage he says that the delight which grounds the...
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Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

Noël Carroll - Art - 2001 - 468 pages
...beautiful which is tinged with the slightest interest, is very partial and not a pure judgment of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour...respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste.20 Here, as in Hutcheson (and possibly in response to Hume's failure to distinguish pleasure...
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The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of ...

Peter Kivy - Music - 2001 - 316 pages
...makes me dependent on the real existence of the object. . . . One must not be in the least predisposed in favour of the real existence of the thing, but...respect in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste.6 Kant thinks of the beautiful, quite naturally, as a source of pleasure or delight. And having...
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Narrating Community After Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlin

Karin Lynn Schutjer - Aesthetics, German - 2001 - 292 pages
...moral sense: "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the object but must preserve complete indifference in this respect,...order to play the part of judge in matters of taste" (Man muB nicht im mindesten fur die Existenz der Sache eingenommen, sondern in diesem Betracht ganz...
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