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Ideal Embodiment: Kant's Theory of Sensibility

By Angelica Nuzzo

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0253352290, 9780253352293
ASIN
B001XPD52G
LCC
B2798 .N89 2008
Open Library ID
OL18534231M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7855398 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
432\433
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Angelica Nuzzo offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Kant's theory of sensibility in his three Critiques. By introducing the notion of "transcendental embodiment," Nuzzo proposes a new understanding of Kant's views on science, nature, morality, and art. She shows that the issue of human embodiment is coherently addressed and key to comprehending vexing issues in Kant's work as a whole. In this penetrating book, Nuzzo enters new terrain and takes on questions Kant struggled with: How does a body that feels pleasure and pain, desire, anger, and fear understand and experience reason and strive toward knowledge? What grounds the body's experience of art and beauty? What kind of feeling is the feeling of being alive? As she comes to grips with answers, Nuzzo goes beyond Kant to revise our view of embodiment and the essential conditions that make human experience possible.

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