Mark Cheetham’s book, Kant, Art, and Art History: Moments of Discipline, addresses the problem implied by the critic Thomas McEvilley’s quip: “Kant and Greenberg are both things of the past and we should just get over them. Yet somehow, they keep arising from the grave like zombies” (“The Tomb of the Zombie,” Art Criticism, 1998). Other critics and historians, such as Paul Crowther, want to excise Immanuel Kant from art history, due to amply documented...