Kant and the Feeling of Life
Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment
- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.
Kant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant's concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant's approach to aesthetics and teleology but the underlying unity of the Critique of Judgment itself. The "feeling of life," which Kant describes as affecting us in various ways-as animating, enlivening, and quickening the mind-lies at the heart of Kant's philosophical project, but it has remained understudied for a theme of such centrality. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays focused on the topic of life in Kant's work, providing a wealth of perspectives and analyses ranging from the Critique of Judgment to Kant's early aesthetics, his social and political philosophy, his work connected to the body and health, and his moral theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: LebensgefĂźhl and GeistesgefĂźhl in Kantâs Critique of Judgment
- 1. From the Beginning: Kant on the Feeling of Life Itself
- 2. The Furtherance of Life as the Bridge between Nature and Freedom in Kantâs Critical Philosophy
- 3. Pure Aesthetic Judging as a Form of Life
- 4. The Aesthetic Perfection of Life in Baumgarten, Meier, and Kant
- 5. The Ideal of Beauty and the Meaning of âLifeâ in Kantâs Philosophy
- 6. The Momentary Inhibition and Outpouring of the Vital Powers: Kant on the Dynamic Sublime
- 7. Imagination, Life, and Self-Consciousness in the Kantian Sublime
- 8. A Matter of Life and Death, or The Anthropological Deduction of the Sublime
- 9. On the Sensus Communis as a Feeling of Life
- 10. Kant, the Feeling of Life, and the Reflective Comprehension of Teleological Purposiveness
- 11. Organizing the State: Mechanism and Organism in Kantâs Political Writings of the 1780s and 1790s
- 12. Kant on the Feeling of Health
- 13. Kant and Organic Life
- 14. Personality: The Life of the Finite, Moral-Rational Being
- List of Contributors
- Works by Kant
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover