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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. "
From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and ...
edited by - 1996 - 212 pages
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Kant's Life and Thought

Ernst Cassirer - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 460 pages
...not on any factor which makes me dependent on the real existence of the object. Everyone must allow that a judgment on the beautiful which is tinged with...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste."21 The peculiarity of aesthetic self-activity, and hence the special...
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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...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. [Kant goes on to distinguish "the beautiful" from two other forms...
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The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

Peter Kivy - Music - 1993 - 388 pages
...but rather what estimate we form of it on mere contemplation (intuition or reflection).19 Or, again, "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste." At about this stage the concept of disinterestedness came into...
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology

Donald Preziosi - Art - 1998 - 610 pages
...very partial and not a pure judgement of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. This proposition, which is of the utmost importance, cannot be better...
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Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice

Michael McGhee - Reference - 2000 - 308 pages
...very partial and not a pure judgment of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing but must preserve...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. (43) These are two distinct claims. In the first passage he says...
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The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of ...

Peter Kivy - Music - 2001 - 316 pages
...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 must preserve...indifference in this 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...
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Narrating Community After Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlin

Karin Lynn Schutjer - Aesthetics, German - 2001 - 292 pages
...judgment the way it would in the consideration of something merely pleasant or good in a 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, in order to play the part of judge...
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Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Wendy Steiner - Art - 2002 - 332 pages
...with the actuality of the subjects represented: "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste."'9 As a result, for Kant taste is the only experience of pleasure...
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The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America

David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...very partial and not a pure judgement of taste. One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing, but must preserve...indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. (43) Aesthetic judgment thus formalizes a specific object of aesthetic...
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In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

Fred Moten - Music - 2003 - 336 pages
...not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing [Existenz der Sache], but must preserve complete indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste.19 Remember that for Fried, working in a Kantian mode by way of Greenberg,...
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