Winfried Menninghaus: 1 book

Book cover of In Praise of Nonsense

In Praise of Nonsense

Kant and Bluebeard

by Winfried Menninghaus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999

Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque...
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