Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Disinterestedness in Kant
6. Disinterestedness by Any Other Name: Kant and Mendelssohn 11
7. What Is It Like to Feel Beauty? The Complex Meaning of Kant’s Thesis of Disinterestedness 31
8. Disinterestedness: Analysis and Partial Defense 59
9. Disinterestedness and Its Role in Kant’s Aesthetics 87
10. Making Sense: Disinterestedness and Control 105
11. Part II Disinterestedness With and Beyond Kant
12. (a) Disinterest Advocates
13. The Myth of the Absent Self: Disinterest, the Self, and Evaluative Self-Consciousness 135
14. Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited 167
15. (b) Something in Between
16. The Playful Negotiation of Interests: Kant in Conversation with Fried and Winnicott 183
17. Human Beauty, Attraction, and Disinterested Pleasure 211
18. (c) Disinterest Critics
19. Pleasure, Desire, and Beauty 233
20. Beyond Hedonism about Aesthetic Value 257
21. Author Index 275
22. Subject Index 279