The status of Kantian aesthetics remains contentious despite renewed attention in
recent decades. Of particular concern is the value of aesthetic experience for the
judging subject. While answers to this topic vary, one consistent feature is the
position that aesthetics is valuable only insofar as it reveals something about the
subject’s capacities, be it in relation to cognition or some other interpretive
capacity. The full value of aesthetic experience, I argue, is not only in relation to
the subject; rather, it also reveals a fundamental order in nature independent of our
capacities to structure sensibility according to our laws. Nature as independently
ordered, or ‘nature as art,’ achieves the full value of aesthetics within Kant’s
system.
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