 While his comments on music are at times disparaged as lacking artistic sensitivity, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is arguably the first major modern philosopher to discuss instrumental music in the context of a systematic account of the arts. His influence on subsequent musical thinking, and particularly on the formalist strand, is undeniable (see the entry on  history of western philosophy of music: since 1800, section 1.6),  but more controversial is whether he himself defends a variety of formalism. Kant’s main discussion of music is contained in the first section of the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), but some remarks are also found in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798).