Kant and the Feeling of Life: Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant`s work. Kant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant`s concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant`s approach to aesthetics and teleology but the underlying unity of the Critique of Judgment itself. The `feeling of life,` which Kant describes as affecting us in various ways-as animating, enlivening, and quickening the mind-lies at the heart of Kant`s philosophical project, but it has remained understudied for a theme of such centrality. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays focused on the topic of life in Kant`s work, providing a wealth of perspectives and analyses ranging from the Critique of Judgment to Kant`s early aesthetics, his social and political philosophy, his work connected to the body and health, and his moral theory.