Abstract

Given the abundant secondary scholarship that has ensued from Kant's discussion of judgments of taste, it is surprising that the question of just what judgments of taste are supposed to be about has never been settled. Rachel Zuckert has recently argued that for Kant, judgments of taste are about objects in the world. I argue, however, that we would do better to read Kant as claiming that judgments of taste are not about determinate objects at all; rather, they are about the relationship between the object's presentation to sensibility and the feeling of pleasure that accompanies that presentation. My reading of Kant has the advantage of staying true to his words, while also saving him from irredeemable aesthetic subjectivism