 An important reason why commentators have been interested in Kant’s account of judgment in the Critique of Judgment is as a potential solution to the question of what unifies the various parts of the Critique of Judgment, and, in particular, what connects the discussion of aesthetics in the first half of the book with that of teleology in the second half of the book. Until the 1980s, many commentators were skeptical that there was any real philosophical connection between the “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” (Part I) and the “Critique of Teleological Judgment” (Part II); for expressions of this view see for example Schopenhauer (1819/1859 [1969: vol. I, 531]), Marc-Wogau (1938: 34n.), and Beck (1969: 497). But since then there has been much more interest in understanding the work as a unified whole, where this involves recognizing connections, not only between the “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” and the “Critique of Teleological Judgment”, but also between those two sections and the Introduction (and First Introduction) to the Critique of Judgment as a whole. (The decision by the editors of the present Encyclopedia to treat the seemingly disparate topics of Kant’s aesthetics and Kant’s teleology in a single article represents one illustration of this general orientation towards the unity of the work.)