This work has by now garnered an immense amount of positive reaction in Kant scholarship. See for example the books of Salim Kemal, Kirk Pillow, and G. Felicitas Munzel. Makkreel's work is important not merely for situating Kant in the hermeneutical tradition, but also for placing Kant's account of judgments and sublimity in the context of his account of reflective judgment.

With the tie to reflective judgment, Makkreel corrects many of the misleading aspects of Paul Guyer's readings, which, while giving reflective judgment its place to some extent, nontheless significantly downplay its importance, thus obscuring the import of Kant's account of beauty. Allison's new book makes a similar correction to Makkreel's, but, unlike Makkreel, does not really show the meaning of the tie of aesthetic reflective jugment to reflective judgment in general.