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FIRST EDITION of Kant's third and final Critique, The Critique of Judgement, by far 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. Together with the FIRST EDITION of The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, intended by Kant as a first step towards a projected but never completed metaphysics of nature. Warda 103; Adickes 64. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Two first editions by Kant in one volume, 8vo, lvi, 476, [1], [ii] pp., contents leaf bound out of order at end, contemporary boards, xxiv, 158 pp., contemporary speckled boards, considerably rubbed and worn at edges, vertical crease down spine and loss to label, early ownership inscriptions on front pastedown, endpaper and title-page, otherwise internally very clean and fresh, the second text with uniform light browning.

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.