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This important collection of more than twenty original essays by
prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant's
teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy
edition's continuing publication of Kant's lectures, the role of
his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved
attention. Several of Kant's lectures on metaphysics, logic,
ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated
into English, and important studies have appeared in many
languages. But why study the lectures? When they are read in light
of Kant's published writings, the lectures offer a new perspective
of Kant's philosophical development, clarify points in the
published texts, consider topics there unexamined, and depict the
intellectual background in richer detail. And the lectures are
often more accessible to readers than the published works. This
book discusses all areas of Kant's lecturing activity. Some essays
even analyze in detail the content of Kant's courses and the role
of textbooks written by key authors such as Baumgarten, helping us
understand Kant's thought in its intellectual and historical
contexts. Contributors: Huaping Lu-Adler; Henny Blomme ; Robert
Clewis; Alix Cohen; Corey Dyck; Faustino Fabbianelli; Norbert
Fischer; Courtney Fugate; Paul Guyer; Robert Louden; Antonio
Moretto; Steve Naragon; Christian Onof; Stephen Palmquist; Riccardo
Pozzo; Frederick Rauscher; Dennis Schulting; Oliver Sensen; Susan
Shell; Werner Stark; John Zammito; Gunter Zoeller
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.
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Lectures on Anthropology (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant; Edited by Robert B. Louden, Allen W. Wood; Translated by Robert R. Clewis, G.Felicitas Munzel
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Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on
anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently
given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first
translation of selections from student transcriptions of the
lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version,
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant
edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most
extensive texts, Anthropology Friedlander (1772) and Anthropology
Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with
selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in
the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the
Menschenkunde (1781-2), first published in 1831. These lectures
show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory
of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy,
including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of
history.
This important collection of more than twenty original essays by
prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant's
teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy
edition's continuing publication of Kant's lectures, the role of
his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved
attention. Several of Kant's lectures on metaphysics, logic,
ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated
into English, and important studies have appeared in many
languages. But why study the lectures? When they are read in light
of Kant's published writings, the lectures offer a new perspective
of Kant's philosophical development, clarify points in the
published texts, consider topics there unexamined, and depict the
intellectual background in richer detail. And the lectures are
often more accessible to readers than the published works. This
book discusses all areas of Kant's lecturing activity. Some essays
even analyze in detail the content of Kant's courses and the role
of textbooks written by key authors such as Baumgarten, helping us
understand Kant's thought in its intellectual and historical
contexts. Contributors: Huaping Lu-Adler; Henny Blomme ; Robert
Clewis; Alix Cohen; Corey Dyck; Faustino Fabbianelli; Norbert
Fischer; Courtney Fugate; Paul Guyer; Robert Louden; Antonio
Moretto; Steve Naragon; Christian Onof; Stephen Palmquist; Riccardo
Pozzo; Frederick Rauscher; Dennis Schulting; Oliver Sensen; Susan
Shell; Werner Stark; John Zammito; Gunter Zoeller
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.
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Lectures on Anthropology (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant; Edited by Robert B. Louden, Allen W. Wood; Translated by Robert R. Clewis, G.Felicitas Munzel
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R3,847
Discovery Miles 38 470
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Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on
anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently
given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first
translation of selections from student transcriptions of the
lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version,
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant
edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most
extensive texts, Anthropology Friedlander (1772) and Anthropology
Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with
selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in
the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the
Menschenkunde (1781 1782), first published in 1831. These lectures
show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory
of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy,
including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of
history."
While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere
philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different
perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is
often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet
the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for
the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested
in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate
with fellow human beings. In addition to a foreword on Kant's
theory of humor by Noel Carroll as well as Clewis's informative
chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of
Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is
illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which
explain their significance.
While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere
philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different
perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is
often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet
the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for
the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested
in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate
with fellow human beings. In addition to a foreword on Kant's
theory of humor by Noel Carroll as well as Clewis's informative
chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of
Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is
illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which
explain their significance.
This is 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 excluded.
As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and
allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to
gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The
anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading
or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a
bibliography and index - making it an ideal text for building a
course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides
valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views
of the sublime.
This is 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 excluded.
As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and
allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to
gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The
anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading
or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a
bibliography and index - making it an ideal text for building a
course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides
valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views
of the sublime.
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 such as
Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Georg Meier, Moses
Mendelssohn, Johann Sulzer, Johann Herder, Francis Hutcheson, David
Hume, Edmund Burke, Henry Home, Charles Batteux, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, and Voltaire. His resulting study uncovers and
illuminates the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory and
will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across
the humanities and studies of the arts.
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