Judging Appearances

A Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-4020-0258-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Reihe: Phaenomenologica

Kant's accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the . Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a , which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. examines the themes of appearance and judgment against the background of Kant's debt to Leibniz and Shaftesbury. Drawing upon treatments by Husserl, Sartre, Ricoeur and Arendt, Kleist delineates the proto-phenomenological method through which Kant uncovers the idea of a . Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality. This volume will prove valuable for anyone interested in a fresh approach to themes at the heart of Kant's aesthetics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleist, E. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I / Introduction: A Phenomenological Approach.- The Problem of Harmony and Ground.- Objections to a Phenomenological Study of Kantian Aesthetics.- Precedents for the Phenomenological Interpretation.- Rationale for a Phenomenological Approach.- II / Phenomenological Reconstruction.- First Moment: Kant’s Analysis of Disinterestedness.- Second Moment: Universality without Concept.- Third Moment: Purposiveness without Purpose.- Fourth Moment: Exemplary Necessity.- III / The Indeterminacy of Grounds (Kant and Leibniz).- Kant’s Appropriation of Leibniz before the Critique of Judgment.- The Problem of Appearance and Ground in Leibnizian Aesthetics.- Indeterminacy and Appearance in the Critique of Judgment.- Appendix: Excerpts from the Latin Version of the Monadologie.- IV / Being Mindful of Appearance: Receptivity, Neutralization, Discursivity.- Sensibility.- The Faculties of Representation.- Imagination.- Imagination and Neutralization.- The Discursivity of Human Understanding as “Thinking” [Denken]: Kant’s Rejection of Intellectual Intuition/Intuitive Understanding.- The Discursivity of Reason in Thinking, Contemplation and Desire.- V / Conclusion.- Kant and Humanism.- Maxims of Common Human Understanding.