Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant's Pragmatist Legacy

by Jennifer A. McMahon

Book Overview

In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is that neo-pragmatism draws attention to an otherwise overlooked aspect of Kant's "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment," and this is the conception of community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138943967
• ISBN13: 9781138943964
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"