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1Novalis: Fichte Studies (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.This volume presents the first complete translation of Fichte Studies, a powerful, creative and sustained critique of Fichtean philosophy by the young philosopher-poet Friedrich von Hardenberg, who under the pen-name Novalis went on to become the most well-known and beloved of the early German Romantic writers. Anyone interested in the fate of German philosophy and literature immediately after Kant will find this collection of notes and aphorisms a treasure-trove of original contributions on the…Read more
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112 Aesthetic Reflection and CommunityIn Charlton Payne & Lucas Thorpe (eds.), Kant and the concept of community, University of Rochester Press. pp. 260-283. 2011.
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Romantic Conceptions of the Self in Hölderlin and NovalisIn Günter David Klemm and Zöller (ed.), Figuring the Self, Suny Press. pp. 134--148. 1997.
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Early German Romanticism: The Challenge of PhilosophizingIn Dean Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 295-326. 2010.
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Harmony and a Common Sense: Judgments of Taste in Kant's Third "Critique"Dissertation, The University of Rochester. 1984.In this thesis I attempt to characterize Kant's "judgment of taste" by examining the structure and justification of these judgments as well as the historical influences which shaped his aesthetic theory. I begin by tracing the development of the notions of a "common sense" and "disinterest" through Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Burke, and Hume in England, and by discussing the influence of their respective aesthetic theories on Kant. I then examine eighteenth century German rationalist aesthetics prio…Read more
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