BOOKS
The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics
Cambridge University Press: January 2023
Drawing from new textual materials, this monograph examines the sources and development of Kant’s aesthetic theory. It gives special attention to 18th-c. British aesthetics (Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Kames, Gerard) and the European rationalist tradition (Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Meier, Mendelssohn). In addition to exploring aesthetic normativity, the sublime, and beauty, it investigates frequently overlooked themes such as ugliness and disgust, genius and the fine arts, and humor.
KANT’S HUMOROUS WRITINGS: An Illustrated Guide
While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings. Preview.
THE KANTIAN SUBLIME AND REVELATION OF FREEDOM
In this book Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philosophy. …
THE SUBLIME READER
The first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. …
READING KANT’S LECTURES [paperback version available soon!]
This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant’s teaching in relation to his published works.
With the Academy edition’s continuing publication of Kant’s lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. …