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New Release: Jennifer Mensch (Ed.), “Kant and the Feeling of Life. Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment” (SUNY Press, 2024)

Jennifer Mensch (edited by), "Kant and the Feeling of Life. Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment" (SUNY Press, 2024)

We are glad to give notice of Kant and the Feeling of Life. Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment, edited by Jennifer Mensch (SUNY Press, 2024).

From the publisher’s website:

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.
Table of contents:Introduction: Lebensgefühl and Geistesgefühl in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
Jennifer Mensch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Kant and Organic Life
Joan Steigerwald

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

 

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