Der Geschmack der Freiheit
Kant und das politisch Unbewusste der Ästhetik
Rombach, 1. Edition 2024, 228 Pages
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‘The Taste of Freedom’ examines the connection between aesthetics and politics in Kant and various theories based on his ideas (Arendt, Rancière, Rorty, etc.). Using the idea of political unconsciousness, this book also addresses literary texts from Hölderlin to Proust, Nabokov and Wallace. As an alternative to Kant's theory of what is beautiful, the book develops a sensually oriented theory of what is pleasant, on the basis of which a genuinely aesthetic approach to democratic forms of life in modernity is developed. This work thus critically confronts the discontent with democracy today.
Bibliographical data
| Edition | 1 |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-3-98858-035-1 |
| Subtitle | Kant und das politisch Unbewusste der Ästhetik |
| Publication Date | Feb 8, 2024 |
| Year of Publication | 2024 |
| Publisher | Rombach |
| Format | Softcover |
| Languages | deutsch |
| Pages | 228 |
| Medium | Book |
| Product Type | Scientific literature |
Reviews
»Indeed, this book is wildly interdisciplinary, for instance, in its treatment of novelist David Foster Wallace on the aesthetics of the exhausted self as described by sociologist Alain Ehrenberg; of Ludwig Wittgenstein on William Shakespeare and the affective potential of literature in its autonomy; and of Rorty on Vladimir Nabokov regarding the revolutionary potential of the sublime and the avoidance of cruelty. The cast of characters in Der Geschmack der Freiheit is long, a veritable buffet of humanist scholarship.«
Prof. Dr. Karen S. Feldmann, German Studies Review 2/2026, 371
Prof. Dr. Karen S. Feldmann, German Studies Review 2/2026, 371
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