Judgment, Imagination, and Politics Themes from Kant and Arendt

by Nedelsky, Jennifer; Beiner, Ronald; Arendt, Hannah; Cavell, Stanley; Larmore, Charles; O'Neill, Onora; Kateb, George; Dostal, Robert J.; Wellmer, Albrecht; Benhabib, Seyla; Young, Iris; Bilsky, Leora Y.; Villa, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780847699704
• ISBN10: 0847699706
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and the many puzzles that arise from the enlarged mentality, the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant treated as essential to judgment.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Part 1 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy
The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance	3	(24)
Hannah Arendt
Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy	27	(20)
Stanley Cavell
Moral Judgment	47	(18)
Charles Larmore
The Public Use of Reason	65	(26)
Onora O'Neill
Part 2 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging
Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures	91	(12)
Ronald Beiner
Judgement, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy	103	(18)
Jennifer Nedelsky
The Judgment of Arendt	121	(18)
George Kateb
Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant	139	(26)
Robert J. Dostal
Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason	165	(18)
Albrecht Wellmer
Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought	183	(22)
Seyla Benhabib
Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought	205	(24)
Iris Marion Young
Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law	229	(28)
Jennifer Nedelsky
When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment	257	(30)
Leora Y. Bilsky
Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique	287	(24)
Dana R. Villa
Index	311	(6)
About the Contributors	317