Judgment, imagination, and politics : themes from Kant and Arendt / edited by Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beiner, Ronald, 1953-

Nedelsky, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Judgment--Political aspects.

Judgment.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Judgments.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]

Summary:

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and the many puzzles that arise from the 'enlarged mentality, ' the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant treated as essential to judgment

Contents:

Part 1 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy

1. The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance / Hannah Arendt 3

2. Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy / Stanley Cavell 27

3. Moral Judgment / Charles Larmore 47

4. The Public Use of Reason / Onora O'Neill 65

Part 2 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging

5. Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures / Ronald Beiner 91

6. Judgment, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy / Jennifer Nedelsky 103

7. The Judgment of Arendt / George Kateb 121

8. Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant / Robert J. Dostal 139

9. Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason / Albrecht Wellmer 165

10. Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought / Seyla Benhabib 183

11. Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought / Iris Marion Young 205

12. Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law / Jennifer Nedelsky 229

13. When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment / Leora Y. Bilsky 257

14. Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique / Dana R. Villa 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0847699706

0847699714

OCLC:

45958024