Kant and the Feeling of Life : Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

State University of New York Press

Kant and the Feeling of LifeBeauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Mensch, Jennifer Mensch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438498645, 978-1438498645\nSynopsis\nCollects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.\n\nKant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant's concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant's approach to aesthetics and teleology but the underlying unity of the Critique of Judgment itself. The \""feeling of life,\"" which Kant describes as affecting us in various ways-as animating, enlivening, and quickening the mind-lies at the heart of Kant's philosophical project, but it has remained understudied for a theme of such centrality. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays focused on the topic of life in Kant's work, .