Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty

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Author(s): Larissa Berger, Paul Guyer, Nick Zangwill, Christian Helmut Wenzel, Stefano Velotti, Keren Gorodeisky, Thomas Hilgers, Fiona Hughes, Lisa Schmalzried, Dominic McIver Lopes, James Shelley
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 290
City: Berlin/Boston
Tags: Immanuel Kant

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Disinterestedness in Kant
Disinterestedness by Any Other Name: Kant and Mendelssohn
What Is It Like to Feel Beauty? The Complex Meaning of Kant’s Thesis of Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness: Analysis and Partial Defense
Disinterestedness and Its Role in Kant’s Aesthetics
Making Sense: Disinterestedness and Control
Part II Disinterestedness With and Beyond Kant
(a) Disinterest Advocates
The Myth of the Absent Self: Disinterest, the Self, and Evaluative Self-Consciousness
Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited
(b) Something in Between
The Playful Negotiation of Interests: Kant in Conversation with Fried and Winnicott
Human Beauty, Attraction, and Disinterested Pleasure
(c) Disinterest Critics
Pleasure, Desire, and Beauty
Beyond Hedonism about Aesthetic Value
Author Index
Subject Index