Kant on Beauty and Biology by Rachel Zuckert
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book interprets the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a whole that we do not completely understand according to preconceived categories. This ability is necessary, moreover, for human beings to gain knowledge of nature in its empirical character as it is, not as we might assume it to be. Her wide-ranging and original study will be valuable for readers in all areas of Kant's philosophy.
Review of the hardback: '… impressive in its intellectual scope, its clearly-written quality, its well-informed, considerable citation of the secondary literature in Kant scholarship and its manner of arguing for a variety of nuanced positions that arise within the text's many subthemesIt is a contribution that stands solidly on the shoulders of the presently leading Kant scholarship and that integrates itself well into it.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Zuckert, Rachel: - Rachel Zuckert is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. She is author of the prizewinning Kant on Beauty and Biology (Cambridge, 2007) and co-editor of Hegel on Philosophy in History (Cambridge, 2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521172332 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521172330 |
| Title | Kant on Beauty and Biology |
| Author | Rachel Zuckert |
| Series | Modern European Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2010-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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