• ISBN13: 9780521516686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyReligion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: August 16, 2009
• Pages: 272
• Original Price: GBP 69.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 567 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Modern

About the Book In this book Robert R. 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. He examines the ways in which different kinds of sublimity reveal freedom and indirectly contribute to morality, and discusses how Kant's account of natural sublimity suggests that we have an indirect duty with regard to nature. Unlike many other studies of these themes, this book examines both the pre-critical Observations and the remarks that Kant wrote in his copy of the Observations. Finally, Clewis takes seriously Kant's claim that enthusiasm is aesthetically sublime, and shows how this clarifies Kant's views of the French Revolution. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's philosophy.

Clewis, Robert R.: - Robert R. Clewis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gwynedd-Mercy College, Pennsylvania. He received his BA in Philosophy and French from Wake Forest University, North Carolina and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, Massachusetts. He also received an MA in Economics from the University of Bologna, Italy.