Immanuel Kant is the greatest philosopher of the modern era, the founder of classical German philosophy. Kant's range of professional interests was unusually broad. He developed a theory of the origin of the solar system, studied earthquakes, and lectured on physics and geography. However, Kant's most significant works, which truly revolutionized the field of thought, are the so-called 'critical works.'
The third of Kant's 'Critiques,' 'Critique of Judgment,' dates from 1790 and is one of the most important works in the history of world aesthetic thought. Having influenced, to varying degrees, the views of Schiller, Goethe, Schelling, Hegel, as well as Russian thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries who accepted Kant's ideas or polemicized against them, this work remains an invaluable source of food for thought in the field of the philosophy of beauty and art.