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- Title
Attention and the Free Play of the Faculties.
- Authors
Williams, Jessica J.
- Abstract
The harmonious free play of the imagination and understanding is at the heart of Kant's account of beauty in the Critique of the Power of Judgement, but interpreters have long struggled to determine what Kant means when he claims the faculties are in a state of free play. In this article, I develop an interpretation of the free play of the faculties in terms of the freedom of attention. By appealing to the different way that we attend to objects in aesthetic experience, we can explain how the faculties are free, even when the subject already possesses a concept of the object and is bound to the determinate form of the object in perception.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415421000339