CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT

With the Critique of Judgment (1790), Kant completed his critical enterprise. To this day, however, the third of his three Critiques has remained the darkest of Kant;s published works and the most inaccessible to the philosophical reader. Its two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment, are bracketed together by a formidable Introduction - two, in fact: one usually referred to as the First Introduction, and the shorter one Kant substituted for it for publication. Both introductions are relentlessly technical, both rehearse the Kantian scheme as a whole, drawing and redrawing well-known and new distinctions and contrasts; both address themselves to “philosophy as a system” They see the third Critique as a culmination and completion of critical philosophy, now enlarged in scope and thus requiring a number of retrospective adjustments to earlier projections of the architectonics of the entire edifice.