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12Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual MediaBritish Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.In his erudite and detailed study, now made available in Nils Schott’s commendable translation a decade after the initial publication of the German version, Emm.
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16Aesthetic Normativity in FreiburgHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (2): 183-197. 2022.Aesthetic normativity continues to be of interest in contemporary aesthetics, and significant contributions to the topic can be found in neo-Kantianism. This article examines the account of aesthetic normativity presented by Jonas Cohn (1869–1947), a member of the Southwestern school of neo-Kantianism and author of a 1901 book on aesthetics. Cohn's Kantian-Hegelian theory of aesthetic normativity deserves more examination than it has so far received. Even if one does not accept all of its main a…Read more
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6Kant's humorous writings: an illustrated guideBloomsbury Academic. 2020.Commonly regarded as one of the most serious philosophers of all time (this is a man who took his daily walk at precisely the same time each day), Kant's Humorous Writings explores a dimension of Kant's work that has hitherto been almost entirely ignored but which casts his philosophy into a new light. With entirely new translations of Kant's bon mots, quips, and anecdotes, supplemented by historical commentary and numerous illustrations, this guide outlines just why these pieces were important …Read more
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4History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society by Riccardo PozzoReview of Metaphysics 76 (1): 156-158. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society by Riccardo PozzoRobert R. ClewisPOZZO, Riccardo. History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. vi + 231 pp. Cloth, $94.99In a forward-looking proposal, Pozzo lays out his vision for a multidisciplinary history of philosophy "from a global perspective." This book is "a long position paper, an extended essay dedicated to twenty-first cent…Read more
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21The Origins of Kant's AestheticsCambridge University Press. 2022.Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors…Read more
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33The Normativity of Aesthetic Judgments: Kant’s DevelopmentIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1017-1026. 2021.
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129Why the Sublime Is Aesthetic AweJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (3): 301-314. 2021.This article focuses on the conceptual relationship between awe and the experience of the sublime. I argue that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as a species of awe, namely, as aesthetic awe. I support this conclusion by considering the prominent conceptual relations between awe and the experience of the sublime, showing that all of the options except the proposed one suffer from serious shortcomings. In maintaining that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as aesthetic…Read more
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12Kant sull'umorismoLebenswelt. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 16. 2021.While it may at first sight seem strange that Kant decides to spend seven pages of the third Critique discussing jokes and laughter, it would be a mistake to conclude that these considerations are irrelevant to his aesthetic theory and general philosophical goals. Laughter at humour is an important and meaningful human experience, worthy of attention and philosophical analysis. In particular, then, I maintain that laughter in response to humour does not, on Kant’s view, count as a pure aesthetic…Read more
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12How to Move Forward: Points of Convergence between Analytic and Continental PhilosophyBalkan Journal of Philosophy 3 (2): 153-162. 2011.My aim is both theoretical and practical. By characterizing what I call points of convergence between analytic and continental philosophy, I offer suggestions about how to bridge the gap. I do not attempt to retrace the moment at which the divide occurred nor offer historical explanations of the rift, but instead discuss points of convergence, with reference to Kant. I summarize this discussion in two tables. I give theoretical and practical suggestions for moving forward. I conclude with some c…Read more
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14Gualtiero Lorini, Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia kantiana: I Corsi di Metafisica (1762–1795) Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2017 Pp. 270 ISBN 978-884674738-9 9 (pbk) € 23.00 (review)Kantian Review 25 (3): 492-497. 2020.
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258Kant’s Lectures on Philosophical Theology -- Training-Ground for the Moral Pedagogy of Religion?In Reading Kant's Lectures, De Gruyter. pp. 365-390. 2015.How serious was Kant about his suggestion, in the first edition Preface to Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (6:10), that he hoped his book would be suitable for use as compulsory reading for a philosophy class that theology students of the future would be required to take in their final year of study? This chapter (of a forthcoming anthology that will include chapters on all of Kant's lecturing activity) begins by sketching the pedagogical themes that develop progressively throughout Re…Read more
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5Kant’s Conception of Philosophy, 1764 –1765In 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. 491-502. 2013.
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4The Sublime and Its Teleology Kant- Gwrman Idealism- Phenomenology, Edited by Donald Loose (review)Kant Studies Online 2014 (1). 2014.
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176The Sublime Reader (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2018.The first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been overlooked. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied…Read more
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107Beauty and Utility in Kant’s Aesthetics: The Origins of Adherent BeautyJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 305-335. 2018.within western philosophy, there is a long and rich tradition of treating the beautiful and the good as closely related and mutually reinforcing.1 Different models of the relation have been proposed. An ‘identity’ model can be seen in Plato’s identification of the beautiful and the good in the Symposium and perhaps in the Greek notion of kalokagathia.2 Yet, according to Plato’s Republic, the form of the good illuminates, and differs from, the forms of beauty and truth: “both knowledge and truth …Read more
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2493Kant’s Physical Geography and the Critical PhilosophyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. 2018.Kant’s geographical theory, which was informed by contemporary travel reports, diaries, and journals, developed before his so-called “critical turn.” There are several reasons to study Kant’s lectures and material on geography. The geography provided Kant with terms, concepts, and metaphors which he employed in order to present or elucidate the critical philosophy. Some of the germs of what would become Kant’s critical philosophy can already be detected in the geography course. Finally, Kant’s g…Read more
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15Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (2): 74-76. 2017.
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9A Case for Kantian Artistic Sublimity: A Response to AbaciJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (2): 167-170. 2010.
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Film Evaluation and the Enjoyment of Dated FilmsProjections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 6 (2): 42-63. 2012.
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51The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of FreedomCambridge University Press. 2009.In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philosophy. He examines the ways in which different kinds of sublimity reveal freedom and indirectly contribute to morality, and discusses how Kant's account of natural sublimity suggests that we have an indirect duty with regard to natur…Read more
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Gwynedd Mercy UniversityAssociate Professor
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionVisiting scholar (Part-time)
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