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Author: John Andrew Bernstein
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttempts to gain some historical perspective on the diverse modern conflicts between the moral and the aesthetic by examining the role of each in three major and widely influential thinkers of the 18th century: Shaftesbury, Rousseau, and Kant. Also examined are the traditions, which, in turn, influenced the philosophers both positively and negatively.
Author: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107105765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'.
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1400867673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated by James Gutmann, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr. Originally published in 1945. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Robert R. Clewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0521516684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy fit together and deepen our understanding of his thought.
Author: Rowan Boyson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1139851764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than selfish, and she focuses particularly on this approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure. Through close reading of Enlightenment and Romantic texts, in particular the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth, Boyson elaborates on this central theme. Covering a wide range of texts by philosophers, theorists and creative writers from over the centuries, she presents a strong defence of the Enlightenment ideal of pleasure, drawing out its rich political, as well as intellectual and aesthetic, implications.
Author: R. M. Wenley
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1443800732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The book is designed” writes the author in his preface, “to do the general reader a service and, of course, his demands concern the larger sweep of Kant’s thought rather than the minute details of the Critical Philosophy.” And Wenley’s style certainly corroborates this statement. His way of getting from the larger environment in which Kant lived to the circumstances in Kant’s life, and from there to his thought and its consequences, is penetrating but remarkably clear. And this clarity is evident as much in Wenley’s language as it is in the structure of the book. Attractive as all this makes the book for the general reader, Wenley’s scholarly nature does present itself at critical points making the work as useful to the Kant specialist or the historian of philosophy.
Author: Robert Mark Wenley
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wokler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0691147892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.
Author: James Kirwan
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-02-22
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1847142427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is widely held to be the seminal work of modern aesthetics. In recent years it has been the focus of intense interest and debate not only in philosophy but also in literary theory and all disciplines concerned with the aesthetic. The Aesthetic in Kant is a new reading of Kant's problematic text. It draws upon the great volume of recent philosophical work on this classic text and on the context of eighteenth century aesthetics. Kant's work is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative to the antinomy of taste - the basic problem of the aesthetic. In Kant's account is a theory of the aesthetic that, far from establishing its 'disinterested' nature, instead makes it symptomatic of what Kant himself describes as the ineradicable human tendency to entertain 'fantastic desires'.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2002-03-08
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780872206175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the standards set in his widely respected translations of the Critique of Judgement (1987) and the Critique of Pure Reason (1996).
