My research has two different but related aims. The first includes original scholarship on Immanuel Kant's Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment in which I identify the origins of misreadings of Kant's aesthetic formalism in the writing of certain early twentieth century philosophers and art theorists who influenced writing on Kant's aesthetics up until the present. I provide textual evidence to support an alternative reading which demonstrates that the popular concepts of disinterest and universality, where aesthetic reflective judgments are concerned, which are the standard foil of cognitive aesthetic theories, are in fact based on …

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