Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality - Softcover

Guyer, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521568331 ISBN 13: 9780521568333

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments and particular attachments on the basis of the most rigorous principle of duty. Kant's thought is placed in a rich historical context including such figures as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kames, as well as Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Schiller, and Hegel. Other topics treated are the sublime, natural versus artistic beauty, genius and art history, and duty and inclination. These essays extend and enrich the account of Kant's aesthetics in the author's earlier book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979).

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Book Description:

This collection of essays by one of the pre-eminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself.

From the Back Cover:

'This is a collection of ten essays concerned with how the post-1788 Kant came to understand important connections between aesthetics and morality. All are deeply informed, immensely interesting and, for those serious about Kantian ethics and aesthetics required reading'--Philosophical Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521568331
• ISBN 13: 9780521568333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468