Abstract
First Book of Kant's Critique of the Power of the Judgment ("Analytic of the Beautiful")opens with an argument that feeling combined with representation can be pleasure or displeasure, then with a discussion of the aesthetic judgment of pleasure, but it says nothing about the aesthetic judgment of displeasure. Furthermore, there is only a short paragraph dealing with ugliness in Critique of the Power of the Judgment. Why is there no"Analytic of the Ugliness"? Can Kant make a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness? Questions like this have been attracting academic attention from the end of the 20th century. In our opinion, it is very important to distinguish th "‘judgment of appreciation of ugliness" from the "judgment of ugliness". According to Kant's aesthetics, it is impossible to make a "judgment of pure ugliness", but possible to make a "judgment of the appreciation of ugliness". On the other hand, the "judgment of the appreciation of ugliness" is identical with the "judgment of the Sublime" in Critique of the Power of the Judgment, so it's unnecessary for "Analytic of Ugliness" to re-do it since there is already "Analytic of the Sublime".
First Page
186
Last Page
194
Recommended Citation
Pan, Daozheng, and Jinchao Li. 2016. "On Kant's "Problem of Ugliness"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (5): pp.186-194. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss5/13
