The tragedy of philosophy : Kant's critique of judgment and the project of aesthetics / Andrew Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Andrew, 1986- author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.

Kritik der Urteilskraft (Kant, Immanuel).

Judgment (Aesthetics).

Aesthetics.

Tragedy.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy-one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. Although this text is normally understood as the final attempt to seal philosophy from the threat of tragedy, Cooper argues that Kant's project is rather a creative engagement with a tragedy that is specific to philosophy, namely, the inevitable failure of attempts to master nature through knowledge. Kant's encounter with the tragedy of philosophy turns philosophy's gaze from an exclusive focus on knowledge to matters of living well in a world that does not bend itself to our desires. Tracing the impact of Kant's Critique of Judgment on some of the most famous theories of tragedy, including those of G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Cornelius Castoriadis, Cooper demonstrates how these philosophers extend the project found in both Kant and the Greek tragedies: the attempt to grasp nature as a domain hospitable to human life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Kant's Critique of Judgment

1 From Disembodied Soul to Embodied Mind 23

The problem of life 27

The generation dilemma 31

The rationalist response 37

The empiricist response 39

Embodied mind 45

2 Reflective Judgment 49

The need for a third Critique 51

The power of judgment 56

Beauty and purposiveness 59

The antinomy of teleological judgment 65

From system to method 72

3 The Ethical Turn 77

Reason's double bind 80

The spiritual character of arc 86

Synthesizing nature and freedom 92

An enlarged way of thinking 97

Part II Tragedy after Kant

4 Hegel: The Philosophy of Tragedy 105

Aesthetics 108

A theory of tragedy 114

Interpreting Hegel 118

Tragedy and history 124

5 Nietzsche: Tragic Philosophy 133

Schopenhauer's metaphysics 136

The Apollinian and the Dionysian 140

The death and rebirth of tragedy 148

Tragedy and ethics 155

6 Heidegger: Greek Tragedy 161

Philosophy and politics 163

Introduction to Metaphysics 167

Hölderlin's Hymn 176

Tragedy and Being 182

7 Castoriadis: Tragedy and Self-formation 189

Identitary logic 190

Imagination and representation 196

Tragedy and self-formation 202

Tragedy and philosophy 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cooper, Andrew, 1986- author. Tragedy of philosophy.

ISBN:

9781438461892

1438461895

OCLC:

936412959