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First edition of Kant's third and final Critique - The Critique of Judgement - the scarcest of his major works. It lays the foundation for modern aesthetics and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the Critique of Teleological Judgement . Kant's long introduction provides an extensive overview of his entire critical system. Goethe said the Critique of Judgement was the first philosophical book ever to move him, and Fichte called it 'the crown of the critical philosophy'. Warda 125; Adickes 71. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo, lviii, 476, [1] pp., contemporary boards with a few marks, rubbed and with wear at edges, spine with gilt rules and some loss to label, a one-line contemporary annotation on the front pastedown, no other inscriptions and no library stamps, very slight foxing towards the end, internally a fine, clean and crisp copy.

Critik der Urtheilskraft, or Critique of Judgement, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant, published in 1790. It is the third of his critiques, following the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the Critique of Practical Reason (1788). The work addresses aesthetics and the philosophy of science, exploring the faculty of judgement.