Philosophy : Aesthetics

Introduction. Part One: A Theory of Justice. Chapter One: Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views. Chapter Two: Utilitarian, Deontology, and the Priority of Right. Chapter Three: Consequentialist, Publicity, Stability, and Property-Owning Democracy. Chapter Four: Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism. Chapter Five: Congruence and the Good Justice. Part Two: Political Liberalism. Chapter Six: Political Liberalism and the Possibility of a Just Democratic Constitution. Chapter Seven: Public Reason and Political Justification. Part Three: The Law of Peoples. Chapter Eight: The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice. Chapter Nine: Distributed Justice and the Law of Peoples. Appendices. Appendix A: Remarks on John Rawls, Memorial Service, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, February 27, 2003. Appendix B: John Rawls: Friend and Teacher (Obituary from The Chronical Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 13, 2002) more...

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This is an important new monograph on an overlooked aspect of Kant's aesthetic theory, presenting an innovative approach to one of modern philosophy's greatest works. Taste is ordinarily thought of in terms of two very different idioms - a normative idiom of taste as a standard of appraisal and a non-normative idiom of taste as a purely personal matter. Kant attempts to capture this twofold conception of taste within the terms of his mature critical philosophy by distinguishing between the beautiful and the agreeable. Scholars have largely taken Kant's distinction for granted, but David Berger argues that it is both far richer and far more problematic than it may appear. Berger examines in detail Kant's various attempts to distinguish beauty from agreeableness. This approach reveals the complex interplay between Kant's substantive aesthetic theory and his broader views on metaphysics and epistemology. Indeed, Berger argues that the real interest of Kant's distinction between beauty and agreeableness is ultimately epistemological. His interpretation brings Kant's aesthetic theory into dialogue with questions at the heart of contemporary analytic philosophy and shows how philosophical aesthetics can offer fresh insights into contemporary philosophical debates. more...

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Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. This book presents ten original essays written by philosophers who distill and build upon work at the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology. more...

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Law and Aesthetics draws on the work of poets as well as philosophers. Taking as its starting point Shelleys assertion that poets are unacknowledged legislators,the book suggests that there is a way of thinking that, as yet, has not been taken up by those who make use of literary aesthetics to understand law. The book tracks this aesthetic thinking through the failures of critical legal studies and stages an encounter with psychoanalysis, before suggesting that an aesthetics of law can be exhumed from Nietzsches work. The aesthetic is a call to the creative: fashion new law. A review of contemporary legal theory that makes use of aesthetic perspectives suggests that dissident and radical Nietzschean energies continue to animate legal thought. In the final chapter, an aesthetics of law is shown to make for an interruption of legal categories, and the generation of new legal relationships. The book concludes with a further meditation on Shelleys poetry, and a call to continue in the spirit of aesthetic reinvention. more...

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This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. One of the finest writers of our time, Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas; his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault more...

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