Kant and the Faculty of Feeling

First essay collection devoted to Kant's faculty of feeling, a concept relevant to issues in ethics, aesthetics, and the emotions.

Kelly Sorensen (Edited by), Diane Williamson (Edited by)

9781316630884, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 January 2020

286 pages
23 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.45 kg

Kant stated that there are three mental faculties: cognition, feeling, and desire. The faculty of feeling has received the least scholarly attention, despite its importance in Kant's broader thought, and this volume of new essays is the first to present multiple perspectives on a number of important questions about it. Why does Kant come to believe that feeling must be described as a separate faculty? What is the relationship between feeling and cognition, on the one hand, and desire, on the other? What is the nature of feeling? What do the most discussed Kantian feelings, such as respect and sublimity, tell us about the nature of feeling for Kant? And what about other important feelings that have been overlooked or mischaracterized by commentators, such as enthusiasm and hope? This collaborative and authoritative volume will appeal to Kant scholars, historians of philosophy, and those working on topics in ethics, aesthetics, and emotions.

Introduction Diane Williamson
1. Rational feelings Alix Cohen
2. Two different kinds of value? Kant on feeling and moral cognition Wiebke Deimling
3. The practical, cognitive import of feeling: a phenomenological account Jeanine M. Grenberg
4. Feeling and inclination: rationalizing the animal within Janelle DeWitt
5. Feeling and desire in the human animal Allen W. Wood
6. 'A new sort of a priori principles': psychological taxonomies and the origin of the third Critique Patrick Frierson
7. Between cognition and morality: pleasure as 'transition' in Kant's critical system Kristi Sweet
8. What is it like to experience the beautiful and sublime? Paul Guyer
9. How to feel a judgment: the sublime and its architectonic significance Katerina Deligiorgi
10. The feeling of enthusiasm Robert R. Clewis
11. Sympathy, love, and the faculty of feeling Kelly Sorensen
12. Respect, in every respect Diane Williamson
13. Is Kantian hope a feeling? Rachel Zuckert.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Western philosophy: Enlightenment [HPCD1]