Judgment, Imagination, and Politics: Themes from Kant and Arendt

by Jennifer Nedelsky (Editor), Ronald Beiner University of Toronto (Contribution by), Hannah Arendt (Contribution by), Stanley Cavell (Contribution by), Charles Larmore (Contribution by)

Overview

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and the many puzzles that arise from the "enlarged mentality," the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant treated as essential to judgment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847699704
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/30/2001
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Ronald Beiner is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Jennifer Nedelsky is professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy
Chapter 3 The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance
Chapter 4 Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy
Chapter 5 Moral Judgment
Chapter 6 The Public Use of Reason
Part 7 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging
Chapter 8 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures
Chapter 9 Judgment, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy
Chapter 10 The Judgment of Arendt
Chapter 11 Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant
Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason
Chapter 13 Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought
Chapter 14 Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought
Chapter 15 Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law
Chapter 16 When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment
Chapter 17 Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique

Editorial Reviews

A valuable scholarly resource: this volume collects, for the first time, the most important essays on judgment written in the last half century. With a clear, thorough, and very helpful introduction by Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky.

Samuel Fleischacker

Beiner and Nedelsky have put togther a fine volume that is a must-read for anyone interested in the problem of judgment. We make judgments every day in law, culture, and politics. And yet, in late modern plural societies it is harder than ever to account for those judgments. Why are they not mere expressions of the institutional power held by judges, critics, or statesmen? Taking Kant and Arendt as their points of departure, the essays in this timely and valuable volume answer that question by exploring the conditions and aspirations of judgment in late modernity.

Bonnie Honig

This collection on Arendt's work is to be welcomed as a a scholarly and pedagogical tool. Beiner and Nedelsky have collected many probing essays that might otherwise be overlooked. And having all of these essays together allows one to easily see the sweep of issues that is entailed by Arendt's thoughts on judgment.

Philosophy in Review

This lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment.

Choice Reviews

This lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment.

Choice

This lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment.

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