In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our ex
perience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste,
aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagina
tion, genius and originality, the limits of representation and the connection be
tween morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judge
ments concerning the apparent purposiveness of nature with respect to the highes
t interests of reason and enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the arti
sts and writers of the classical and romantic period and the philosophy of Hegel
and Schelling.
