The empirical interest in beauty, which is treated in §41 of the Critique of Judgment, is given the status of a marginal topic both by Kant's own statement and by the lack of interest in it on the part of Kant's interpreters. Against this tendency, t...
The empirical interest in beauty, which is treated in §41 of the Critique of Judgment, is given the status of a marginal topic both by Kant's own statement and by the lack of interest in it on the part of Kant's interpreters. Against this tendency, the present study proposes the interpretation that the empirical interest in beauty functions as a factor in the structure of exemplary necessity that Kant presents in explaining the claim to consent of a judgment of taste. This will fill a research gap and at the same time show how Kant establishes cosmopolitanism in the Critique of Judgement in such a new way that harmonizes an a priori research perspective and a pluralism (ultimately to be found in the empirical world).