Kant on Emotion and Value

by Cohen, Alix

• ISBN13: 9781137276643
• ISBN10: 1137276649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

By combining new cutting-edge essays and reprints by leading Kant scholars and Kantian philosophers, this volume offer the first comprehensive assessment of Kant's account of the emotions and their connection to value, whether in his philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics, religion and politics. Through a mixture of interpretation and critical discussion, the essays in this volume illuminate the various aspects of Kant's distinctive approach to the emotions and demonstrate its continuing relevance to philosophical debates. This collection will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, value theory, philosophy of emotion and aesthetics.

Author Biography

Alix Cohen is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009) and has published papers on Kant as well as Hume and Rousseau. She is currently Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and the Oxford Bibliography Online.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
List of Translations and Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The Place of Emotions in Kantian Morality; Nancy Sherman
3. From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action; Christine Korsgaard
4. Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of Character; Marcia Baron
5. The Place of Emotions in Kant's Transcendental Philosophy; Angelica Nuzzo
6. Kant's Pragmatic Concept of Emotions; Wiebke Deimling
7. Kant on the Pleasures of Understanding; Melissa M. Merritt
8. Debunking Confabulation: Emotions and the Significance of Empirical Psychology for Kantian Ethics; Pauline Kleingeld;
9. Kant and Affective Normativity; Patrick Frierson
10. Love of Honor as a Kantian Virtue; Lara Denis
11. All you Need is Love?; Jeanine Grenberg
12. Kant and the Feeling of Sublimity; Michelle Grier
13. The Heart as Locus of Moral Struggle in the 'Religion'; Pablo Muchnik
14. The Enthusiastic Cosmopolitan; Katrin Flikschuh
Bibliography
Index