The Kantian Subject

by Japaridze, Tamar

• ISBN13: 9780791443743
• ISBN10: 0791443744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

ln The Kantian Subject, Tamar Japaridze reconstitutes the philosophical context of Kant's aesthetic theory and considers how Kant's category of the aesthetic pertains to central philosophical questions in the continental tradition, particularly twentieth-century debates about the self, language, and ethics."The reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that focuses on 'affective identification' as a way to understand the Kantian subject is strikingly original. The author clearly shows that Kant in no way suppresses the realm of the sensuous in the Third Critique, but instead it is through a reflection on the sensuous, most precisely, the affective dimension, that he is able to unify the realms of nature and freedom.

Author Biography

Tamar Japaridze is affiliated with the State University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
The Kantian subject and contemporary critique	1	(12)
Transference and language	13	(4)
The Critique of Judgment and post-Kantian philosophy	17	(2)
Heidegger: Critique of representation	19	(3)
Freud: Mimesis and the work of mourning	22	(6)
The temporal character of the Kantian subject	28	(5)
Kant's ethics and its precursors	33	(10)
System	43	(20)
The system of critical philosophy	43	(11)
The concept of beauty and the Kantian system	54	(9)
Sensus Communis	63	(28)
The aesthetic faculty	63	(6)
Sensibility and judgment	69	(15)
Reason: ``Das was hierbei streitig wird, ist nicht die Sache, sondern der Ton''	84	(4)
The critical faculty	88	(3)
The Sublime	91	(34)
Time and the vital forces	92	(24)
Aesthetics and representation: Grounding of the Kantian system	116	(5)
The sublimation of the senses: Taste and reflection	121	(4)
Conclusion: Language	125	(10)
Notes	135	(18)
Bibliography	153	(10)
Index	163