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165Symposium: Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics (book précis and replies to critics)SGIR Review 2 (2): 151-170. 2019.Précis of _Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics_ and replies to comments by Samantha Matherne and Moran Godess-Riccitelli.
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26The Implicit Affection Between Kantian Judgment and Aristotelian RhetoricPhilosophy and Rhetoric 48 (1): 1-25. 2015.Recent scholarship on Kant and rhetoric suggests an inclusive relation between affectivity and cognitive judgment, but that position runs counter to a traditional philosophical opposition between sensibility and rationality. A way to overcome this opposition comes into view in the overlap in three significant areas between Kantian judgment and Aristotelian rhetoric. First, each allows that communicative capacities operate within the way a perceptual object or scene appears in the first place. Se…Read more
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15Katalin Makkai, Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 Pp. viii + 219 ISBN 9781108497794 (hbk) $99.99 (review)Kantian Review 26 (4): 660-665. 2021.A review of Katalin Makkai, _Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life Cambridge_: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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77Kant, Marx, and the Money of MetaphysicsCon-Textos Kantianos 8 45-68. 2018.This paper discusses the relationship between Kantian idealism and Marxian materialism. Part I examines the reasons this relationship is misconstrued to be predominantly a matter of practical philosophy and turns to the neglected works of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Richard Seaford to outline the importance of money for understanding Kant’s theoretical work. Part II considers an objection that Kant confuses the commodity form for the transcendental object of experience. I am ultimately concerned w…Read more
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16The Implicit Affection between Kantian Judgment and Aristotelian Rhetoric. Philosophy and RhetoricPhilosophy and Rhetoric 1 (48): 1-25. 2015.Recent scholarship on Kant and rhetoric suggests an inclusive relation between affectivity and cognitive judgment, but that position runs counter to a traditional philosophical opposition between sensibility and rationality. A way to overcome this opposition comes into view when three significant areas of Kantian judgment and Aristotelian rhetoric are seen to overlap. First, each allows that communicative capacities operate within the way a perceptual object or scene appears in the first place. …Read more
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21Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics: Finding the WorldRoutledge. 2017.This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality. Kant’s account is distinct in that feeling, affect, or mood must be operative within the way the mind receives the world. Moreover, these modes of receptivity fall within the normative domain so that we can hold each other responsible for how we are "struck" by an object or scene. Joseph Tinguely composes a series of investigations i…Read more
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29What is Orientation Not in Thinking?: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and the “Kantian Circle”In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 273-286. 2013.In this presentation I take a close look at Kant’s notion of “orientation” as it arises in a minor essay of 1786 in order to show how this relatively obscure moment forces us to reconsider the central division between epistemology and aesthetics. What makes Kant’s notion orientation difficult to place in a critical system that separates conceptually grounded cognition from the affective nature of aesthetics is that orientations turn out to be claims to knowledge which can not be had without an …Read more
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28Death, Friendship and the Origins of Subjectivity: SZ § 47 and the Burial of AugustineJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40 (1): 21-36. 2009.The purpose of this essay is to indicate the extent to which there is a privileged relationship between the experience of the death of a friend and an understanding of what it means to be a self or a subject. In particular this claim is raised against Heidegger who in ¶47 of _Being and Time_ seems to have raised and explicitly denied any such connection but on closer review turns out to have in fact ignored it altogether. This essay aims to wrestle back from Heidegger the irreducible significa…Read more
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174Kantian Meta-Aesthetics and the Neglected AlternativeBritish Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2): 211-235. 2013.In this article, firstly, I begin by articulating four logically different positions Kant has been argued to hold concerning the nature and meaning of ‘aesthetic judgement’ so that, secondly, I may endorse the alternative that has been almost entirely neglected: that is, aesthetic judgement should be understood to be both ‘internalist’ in that the pleasure of taste is a constitutive element of the judgement itself (rather than its external effect or prior referent) and ‘objective’ insofar as the…Read more
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Immanuel Kant |
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Immanuel Kant |
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy, Miscellaneous |