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Judging Appearances

A Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis

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  1. Edward Eugene Kleist

    1. Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

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Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 156)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: A Phenomenological Approach

    • Edward Eugene Kleist
    Pages 1-14

  3. Phenomenological Reconstruction

    • Edward Eugene Kleist
    Pages 15-47

  4. The Indeterminacy of Grounds (Kant and Leibniz)

    • Edward Eugene Kleist
    Pages 48-96

  5. Being Mindful of Appearance: Receptivity, Neutralization, Discursivity

    • Edward Eugene Kleist
    Pages 97-134

  6. Conclusion

    • Edward Eugene Kleist
    Pages 135-143

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 144-164
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About this book

Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, Judging Appearances retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the Critique of Judgment. Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a sensus communis, which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. Judging Appearances examines the themes of appearance and judgment against the background of Kant's debt to Leibniz and Shaftesbury. Drawing upon treatments by Husserl, Sartre, Ricoeur and Arendt, Kleist delineates the proto-phenomenological method through which Kant uncovers the idea of a sensus communis. Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality. This volume will prove valuable for anyone interested in a fresh approach to themes at the heart of Kant's aesthetics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

    Edward Eugene Kleist

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Judging Appearances

  • Book Subtitle: A Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis

  • Authors: Edward Eugene Kleist

  • Series Title: Phaenomenologica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3931-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6310-1Published: 31 July 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0258-8Published: 30 November 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3931-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0079-1350

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 164

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy

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