Katalin Makkai, Professor of Philosophy, takes part in a panel on her book Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life

BCB Professor of Philosophy Katalin Makkai took part in an Author Meets Critics panel on her book Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life (Cambridge University Press) at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Portland, Oregon, USA, on November 17. The invited critics were Gregg Horowitz, Robert B. Pippin, and Janum Sethi.

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In Kant’s Critique of Taste, Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant’s aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his investigation of the judgment of taste, paints a compelling portrait of our relationships with works of art that we love. At its heart is a scene of aesthetic encounter in which one feels oneself to be “animated”—brought to life—by an object, finding there to be something in one’s experience of it, beyond what there is to know about it, that one wants to explore and articulate. Tracing Kant’s insight that to judge is to reveal one’s sense of what bears judging, and hence of what matters, Makkai situates Kant’s aesthetics within his larger study, begun in the first Critique, of judgment’s fundamental role in the life of the mind.

Read more about the American Society for Aesthetics here.
 

Post Date: 02-02-2023