Kant and the Feeling of Life: Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

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Kant and the Feeling of Life

Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

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Published/Copyright: 2024

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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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Contributor: Jennifer Mensch Jennifer Mensch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. She is the author of Kant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy. --- Contributor: Jennifer Mensch Jennifer Mensch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. She is the author of Kant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy.

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"While there are other very good collections that address either the Critique of Judgment as a whole or Kant's biological/scientific writings, none offer the combination of high-level scholarship and an editorial voice as innovative as Mensch's. While this volume is structured as a collection of essays that follow the development of the Critique of Judgment, Mensch is offering the theme of life as a way not only to interpret the third Critique but to connect its varied discussions far beyond Kant's text within his corpus and beyond." — Avery Goldman, DePaul University

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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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Introduction: Lebensgefühl and Geistesgefühl in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
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Jennifer Mensch

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1. From the Beginning: Kant on the Feeling of Life Itself
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Dennis J. Schmidt

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2. The Furtherance of Life as the Bridge between Nature and Freedom in Kant’s Critical Philosophy
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James Risser

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3. Pure Aesthetic Judging as a Form of Life
57
Courtney D. Fugate

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4. The Aesthetic Perfection of Life in Baumgarten, Meier, and Kant
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J. Colin McQuillan

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5. The Ideal of Beauty and the Meaning of “Life” in Kant’s Philosophy
107
Kristi Sweet

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6. The Momentary Inhibition and Outpouring of the Vital Powers: Kant on the Dynamic Sublime
129
Rachel Zuckert

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7. Imagination, Life, and Self-Consciousness in the Kantian Sublime
153
Robert R. Clewis

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8. A Matter of Life and Death, or The Anthropological Deduction of the Sublime
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Dilek Huseyinzadegan

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9. On the Sensus Communis as a Feeling of Life
197
Rodolphe Gasché

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10. Kant, the Feeling of Life, and the Reflective Comprehension of Teleological Purposiveness
215
Rudolf A. Makkreel

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11. Organizing the State: Mechanism and Organism in Kant’s Political Writings of the 1780s and 1790s
239
Susan Meld Shell

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12. Kant on the Feeling of Health
271
Michael J. Olson

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13. Kant and Organic Life
293
Joan Steigerwald

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14. Personality: The Life of the Finite, Moral-Rational Being
319
G. Felicitas Munzel

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List of Contributors
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Works by Kant
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Bibliography
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Index
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Cultural Studies : German Culture; Literature : Literature; Philosophy : Aesthetics; Philosophy : Continental Philosophy; Philosophy : History of Philosophy

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Kant and the Feeling of Life

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About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Lebensgefühl and Geistesgefühl in Kant’s 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 Kant’s 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 “Life” in Kant’s 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 Kant’s 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

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