Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality

by Paul Guyer

Book Overview

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory includes a distinctive place for the cultivation of both general moral sentiments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521568331
• ISBN13: 9780521568333
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"