a Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis
by Edward Eugene Kleist.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000
(176 pages)
Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H.L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives, 156.
I / Introduction: A Phenomenological Approach --;The Problem of Harmony and Ground --;Objections to a Phenomenological Study of Kantian Aesthetics --;Precedents for the Phenomenological Interpretation --;Rationale for a Phenomenological Approach --;II / Phenomenological Reconstruction --;First Moment: Kant's Analysis of Disinterestedness --;Second Moment: Universality without Concept --;Third Moment: Purposiveness without Purpose --;Fourth Moment: Exemplary Necessity --;III / The Indeterminacy of Grounds (Kant and Leibniz) --;Kant's Appropriation of Leibniz before the Critique of Judgment --;The Problem of Appearance and Ground in Leibnizian Aesthetics --;Indeterminacy and Appearance in the Critique of Judgment --;Appendix: Excerpts from the Latin Version of the Monadologie --;IV / Being Mindful of Appearance: Receptivity, Neutralization, Discursivity --;Sensibility --;The Faculties of Representation --;Imagination --;Imagination and Neutralization --;The Discursivity of Human Understanding as 'Thinking' [Denken]: Kant's Rejection of Intellectual Intuition/Intuitive Understanding --;The Discursivity of Reason in Thinking, Contemplation and Desire --;V / Conclusion --;Kant and Humanism --;Maxims of Common Human Understanding.
Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality.