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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 April 2024
If free harmony of the faculties is the aim of the power of judgment and the ground of the pleasure of taste, the free activity of the imagination is obviously crucial. The only place where Kant investigates the productively free operation of the imagination are the sections on art in the Critique, that is, the sections in which he is concerned not so much with taste as with the productive activity in the artistic genius. Kant characterizes this ultimately inscrutable activity as the production of ‘aesthetic ideas’ by the imagination. The often-noted disconnect between Kant’s account of taste at the beginning of Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and his subsequent theory of art can be resolved; in fact, the theory of artistic productivity is an indispensable complement to the analysis of taste.
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