Description
Book SynopsisJudgment, 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.
Trade ReviewBeiner and Nedelsky have put togther a fine volume that is a must-read for anyone interested in the problem of judgment. We make judgments every day in law, culture, and politics. And yet, in late modern plural societies it is harder than ever to account for those judgments. Why are they not mere expressions of the institutional power held by judges, critics, or statesmen? Taking Kant and Arendt as their points of departure, the essays in this timely and valuable volume answer that question by exploring the conditions and aspirations of judgment in late modernity. -- Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
This lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment. * CHOICE *
A valuable scholarly resource: this volume collects, for the first time, the most important essays on judgment written in the last half century. With a clear, thorough, and very helpful introduction by Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky. -- Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois, Chicago
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. * Philosophy in Review *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy Chapter 3 The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance Chapter 4 Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy Chapter 5 Moral Judgment Chapter 6 The Public Use of Reason Part 7 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging Chapter 8 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures Chapter 9 Judgment, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy Chapter 10 The Judgment of Arendt Chapter 11 Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason Chapter 13 Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought Chapter 14 Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought Chapter 15 Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law Chapter 16 When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment Chapter 17 Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique
