Freedom and limits of the judgement of taste

Abstract

The main topic in this paper is pure aesthetic judgement, which Immanuel Kant considers as the judgement of taste. This paper aims to understand freedom of the judgement of taste concerning communicative aspects which Kant attributed to it. The first part of this paper presents Kant’s understanding of the judgement of taste in Critique of Judgement, more precisely in “Analytics of beauty”. The second part of the paper approaches Kant’s understanding of freedom of the judgement of taste. In the following chapter, the communicative dimension of the judgement of taste i.e. participation in the reflective horizon of communal meaning is investigated. The consideration of the judgement of taste in the context of transcendental sociability leads us to the last chapter which shows that knowledge communicated in a community in a universal and not concrete form conditions freedom of the judgement of taste.