Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Lebensgefühl and Geistesgefühl in Kant’s Critique of Judgment 1
6. 1. From the Beginning: Kant on the Feeling of Life Itself 19
7. 2. The Furtherance of Life as the Bridge between Nature and Freedom in Kant’s Critical Philosophy 41
8. 3. Pure Aesthetic Judging as a Form of Life 57
9. 4. The Aesthetic Perfection of Life in Baumgarten, Meier, and Kant 83
10. 5. The Ideal of Beauty and the Meaning of “Life” in Kant’s Philosophy 107
11. 6. The Momentary Inhibition and Outpouring of the Vital Powers: Kant on the Dynamic Sublime 129
12. 7. Imagination, Life, and Self-Consciousness in the Kantian Sublime 153
13. 8. A Matter of Life and Death, or The Anthropological Deduction of the Sublime 179
14. 9. On the Sensus Communis as a Feeling of Life 197
15. 10. Kant, the Feeling of Life, and the Reflective Comprehension of Teleological Purposiveness 215
16. 11. Organizing the State: Mechanism and Organism in Kant’s Political Writings of the 1780s and 1790s 239
17. 12. Kant on the Feeling of Health 271
18. 13. Kant and Organic Life 293
19. 14. Personality: The Life of the Finite, Moral-Rational Being 319
20. List of Contributors 343
21. Works by Kant 349
22. Bibliography 357
23. Index 373