Expressions of Judgment: An Essay on Kant's Aesthetics

Eli Friedlander

Published by Harvard University Press 2014

Expressions of Judgment

An Essay on Kant's Aesthetics

Eli Friedlander

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735699

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Kant’s The Critique of Judgment laid the groundwork of modern aesthetics when it appeared in 1790. Eli Friedlander’s reappraisal emphasizes the internal connection of judgment and meaning, showing how the pleasure in judging is intimately related to our capacity to draw meaning from our encounter with beauty.

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Friedlander Eli :

Eli Friedlander is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

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In this elegant and pellucid essay, Eli Friedlander offers the most compelling defense to date of the classic, Goethean thesis that aesthetic reflective judgment does the great work of mediating and reconciling—of bringing into meaningful conversation with one another—the dualisms that score Kant’s critical philosophy, above all the wrenching dualism between nature and culture, that we are free and self-determining creatures inhabiting living bodies within a living and mechanical universe. Bracing.
-- Jay Bernstein, New School for Social Research

Friedlander’s Expressions of Judgment is the most illuminating single work on Kant’s Third Critique that I have read. The book achieves a rare combination of overall perspicuity and clarity at the level of the individual sentence that repeatedly builds towards moments of penetrating insight, and thereby brings out aspects of Kant’s thought and worldview from which the most experienced scholar is as likely to derive insight as is the new student.
-- Stephen Mulhall, Oxford University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	a
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Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The Analytic of the Beautiful Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 130

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Published: January 6, 2015
ISBN: 9780674735699