Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Contributions by Ronald Beiner, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, Charles Larmore, Onora O'Neill, George Kateb, Robert J. Dostal, Albrecht Wellmer, Seyla Benhabib, Iris Young, Leora Y. Bilsky, Dana Villa Edited by Jennifer Nedelsky
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Publication date:
20 July 2001Length of book:
352 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781461714392
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.
This collection on Arendt's work is to be welcomed as a a scholarly and pedagogical tool. Beiner and Nedelsky have collected many probing essays that might otherwise be overlooked. And having all of these essays together allows one to easily see the sweep of issues that is entailed by Arendt's thoughts on judgment.