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The Politics of Beauty

The Politics of Beauty
  • A Study of Kant's Critique of Taste
  • Susan Meld Shell
  • Published online:
    29 August 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022
  • This Element examines the entirety of Kant's Critique of Taste (in Part One of the Critique of Judgment) with particular emphasis on its political and moral aims. Kant's critical treatment of aesthetic judgment is both an extended theoretical response to influential predecessors and contemporaries, including Rousseau and Herder, and a practical intervention in its own right meant to nudge history forward at a time of civilizational crisis. Attention to these themes helps resolve a number of puzzles, both textual and philosophic, including the normative force and meaning of judgments of taste, and the relation between natural and artful beauty.

  • Chapter 2 - Anticipations of Autonomy

  • Edited by Stefano Bacin, Università degli Studi di Milano, Oliver Sensen, Tulane University, Louisiana
  • Book:
    The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy
    Published online:
    05 October 2018
    Print publication:
    25 October 2018, pp 29-47

  • Summary

    Kant’s cosmological writings from the mid-1750s to mid-1760s have important implications for Kant’s concept of autonomy. A fuller understanding of Kant’s early cosmological resolution of the tension between a new mathematical science and traditional notions moral culpability and divine power sheds unexpected light upon certain underlying issues that framed his reception of the British Moralists and – above all, Rousseau –issues that continued to preoccupy Kant in the years leading up to and beyond his presentation of the principle of autonomy as the “supreme principle of morality” in the mid-1780s. And it gives rise to a number of doctrines, including the formula of universality, and the priority of morality to religion, that would remain virtually unchanged in his later writings. Kant’s cosmological experiments before and after reading Rousseau suggest that that a “political” conception of worldly interaction centered on laws of freedom may have captured Kant’s attention earlier than is generally recognized.

  • Chapter 9 - Kant as “vitalist”: the “principium of life” inAnthropologie Friedländer

  • Edited by Alix Cohen, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Kant's Lectures on Anthropology
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    30 October 2014, pp 151-171

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with Immanuel Kant's remarks on touch and vision into the context of his pragmatic anthropology, by considering his views of the scope, aims, and methods of that fledgling discipline. Kant supports his discussion with appeals to observation and experience that form a kind of everyday phenomenology of sensory experience. The chapter considers Kant's notion of the relation between the pragmatic and the theoretical, including his remarks that a pragmatic anthropology does not present theoretical or scholastic knowledge but focuses on worldly knowledge. Kant derived the framework for his discussion of the five external senses from his lectures on metaphysics, especially those on empirical psychology. In both empirical psychology and anthropology he categorizes the senses into those that are comparatively objective and those that are comparatively subjective: the objective senses provide more cognition, and provide occasion for reflection, but the subjective senses have more sensation than reflection.

  • 12 - Stalking Puer Robustus

  • from Part IV - Rousseau as Educator and Legislator
  • Edited by Eve Grace, Colorado College, Christopher Kelly, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Challenge of Rousseau
    Published online:
    05 January 2013
    Print publication:
    17 December 2012, pp 271-292

  • Summary

    The antiquarian controversy about the intention of Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceals a political controversy about the nature of democracy. The contemporary critics of Rousseau's praise of ignorance were quite understandably under the impression that he had denied all value to science or philosophy and that he had suggested the abolition of all learning. In accordance with the general character of the Discours Rousseau maintains the thesis that the scientific or philosophic truth (the truth about the whole) is simply inaccessible rather than that it is inaccessible to the people. According to Rousseau, civil society is essentially a particular, or more precisely a closed, society. To say that science and society are incompatible is one thing; to say that science and virtue are incompatible is another thing. The second thesis could be reduced to the first, if virtue were essentially political or social.

Kant's Observations and Remarks
  • A Critical Guide
  • Edited by Susan Meld Shell, Richard Velkley
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    24 May 2012
  • Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764–5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rousseau, who 'turned him around' by disclosing to Kant the idea of a 'state of freedom' (modelled on the state of nature) as a touchstone for his thinking. This and related thoughts anticipate such famous later doctrines as the categorical imperative. This collection of essays by leading Kant scholars illuminates the many and varied topics within these two rich works, including the emerging relations between theory and practice, ethics and anthropology, men and women, philosophy, history and the 'rights of man'.

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