Keren Gorodeisky

My work explores the human by studying the self-conscious and self-constituting character of embodied, situated, temporal, yet rational and intersubjective human persons. I focus on three dimensions of the human: (1) the distinctively human character and value of the aesthetic orientations to the world, (2) the spontaneous-receptive character of human emotions, which are embodied ways of being in the world, yet, at the same time, exercises of rational human agency, and (3) our second-personal, reciprocally recognitional, and embodied relationships to each other. Among others, my work is inspired (and is sometimes about) Kant, German Romanticism, Simone de Beauvoir, and literary fiction. These days, I am completing a book titled, "The Authority of Pleasure: Aesthetic Value, Rationality, and Agency."