Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Schiller on Kant's Aesthetics: The Public Character of the Beautiful

ISBN-13: 9783631720202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 166 str.

Mihaly Szilagyi-Gal

Opis

This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The author regards Friedrich Schiller's and Hannah Arendt's approaches on the normative resources of Kant's aesthetics for moral and political thought.

Spis treści

Disinterestedness - Public - Public sphere - Autonomy - Freedom - Judging - Taste - Morality - Politics - The epistemology of autonomy - Disinterested delight as interest - The moral burden of cognition: Arendt's political reasoning - The inherent freedom of individual judgments of taste - Taste and politics - Moral character as the final framework of judgments of taste

O autorze

Mihály Szilágyi-Gál is Assistant professor at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences in Budapest. His areas of research are focused on modern political and moral philosophy with special focus on freedom of expression and political rhetoric.