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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher whose concept of disinterested pleasure is examined.

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Immanuel Kant shows up with force in Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The page is where that presence becomes real.

His aesthetic theory of beauty as pleasure without practical advantage is discussed.
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