Robert R. Clewis

The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

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 nature. Unlike many other studies of these themes, this book examines both the pre-critical Observations and the remarks that Kant wrote in his copy of the Observations. Finally, Clewis takes seriously Kant's claim that enthusiasm is aesthetically sublime, and shows how this clarifies Kant's views of the French Revolution. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780521516686
• ISBN-10: 0521516684
• Artikelnr.: 26526454

Autorenporträt

Robert Clewis is author of The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (2009), a translator in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology (2012), and editor of Reading Kant's Lectures (2015). He teaches philosophy and is Director of the Honors Program at Gwynedd Mercy University and is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Observations and the Remarks
2. The judgment of the sublime
3. Moral feeling and the sublime
4. Various senses of interest and disinterestedness
5. Aesthetic enthusiasm
6. Enthusiasm for the idea of a republic
7. Conclusion
Appendix 1. On the Remarks
Appendix 2. Some features of the feelings discussed in this book
Appendix 3. Classification of what elicits sublimity
Bibliography
Index.