Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty 9783110727548, 9783110727685, 9783110727753
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Disinterestedness in Kant
Disinterestedness by Any Other Name: Kant and Mendelssohn
What Is It Like to Feel Beauty? The Complex Meaning of Kant’s Thesis of Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness: Analysis and Partial Defense
Disinterestedness and Its Role in Kant’s Aesthetics
Making Sense: Disinterestedness and Control
Part II Disinterestedness With and Beyond Kant
(a) Disinterest Advocates
The Myth of the Absent Self: Disinterest, the Self, and Evaluative Self-Consciousness
Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited
(b) Something in Between
The Playful Negotiation of Interests: Kant in Conversation with Fried and Winnicott
Human Beauty, Attraction, and Disinterested Pleasure
(c) Disinterest Critics
Pleasure, Desire, and Beauty
Beyond Hedonism about Aesthetic Value
Author Index
Subject Index
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Disinterestedness in Kant
Disinterestedness by Any Other Name: Kant and Mendelssohn
What Is It Like to Feel Beauty? The Complex Meaning of Kant’s Thesis of Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness: Analysis and Partial Defense
Disinterestedness and Its Role in Kant’s Aesthetics
Making Sense: Disinterestedness and Control
Part II Disinterestedness With and Beyond Kant
(a) Disinterest Advocates
The Myth of the Absent Self: Disinterest, the Self, and Evaluative Self-Consciousness
Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited
(b) Something in Between
The Playful Negotiation of Interests: Kant in Conversation with Fried and Winnicott
Human Beauty, Attraction, and Disinterested Pleasure
(c) Disinterest Critics
Pleasure, Desire, and Beauty
Beyond Hedonism about Aesthetic Value
Author Index
Subject Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Larissa Berger
- Paul Guyer
- Nick Zangwill
- Christian Helmut Wenzel
- Stefano Velotti
- Keren Gorodeisky
- Thomas Hilgers
- Fiona Hughes
- Lisa Schmalzried
- Dominic McIver Lopes
- James Shelley
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