The Kantian sublime and the revelation of freedom
By: Robert R. Clewis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521516686
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The observations and the remarks; title: The observations; title: Forms of the sublime, and the grotesque; title: Virtue; title: The remarks: history and background; title: Senses of freedom; title: Enthusiasm: the passion of the sublime; title: The judgment of the sublime; title: Preliminary issues; title: The mathematical and the dynamical sublime; title: Third kind: the moral sublime; title: Dependent and free sublimity; title: The monstrous and the colossal; title: Sublimity elicited by art; title: Moral feeling and the sublime; title: The moral feeling of respect; title: Sublimity as presupposing freedom; title: Sublimity as supporting morality; title: Various senses of interest and disinterestedness; title: Interest; title: First-order and second-order interests; title: Empirical and morally based interests; title: Aesthetic enthusiasm; title: Enthusiasm in the corpus; title: Affect; title: Enthusiasm as morally ambiguous; title: Enthusiasm as an aesthetic feeling of sublimity; title: 'without enthusiasm nothing great can be accomplished'; title: Kantian enthusiasm and the revelation of freedom; title: Eenthusiasm for the idea of a republic; title: The charge against Kant; title: Means and ends; title: Freedom and the idea of a republic; title: The consistency of Kant's position; title: Sublimity's basis in freedom; title: The transition to freedom.