Rachel Zuckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1010871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Zuckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuckert |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCKERT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adam Smith on Aesthetic Imagination and Scientific Enquiry
In two posthumously published essays, 'History of Astronomy' and 'Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called The Imitative Arts', Adam Smith suggests provocatively that philosophy is an 'art of imagination' and that we take the same 'very high intellectual pleasure' in appreciating systematic scientific theories and in listening to musical 'systems', i.e., complex works of non-programmatic instrumental music. In this pap…
Memorial for Charles W. Mills
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Presenting the Unpresentable: Jean-François Lyotard’s Kantian Art-Sublime
This article reconstructs Jean-François Lyotard’s theory of the sublime in contemporary art, focusing on his claim that such art ‘presents’ the unpresentable, and tracing its origins in Kant’s account of the sublime. I propose that Lyotard identifies a difficulty concerning Kant’s account: to understand why the disparate elements in the experience of the sublime (idea of reason, sensible representation) should be synthesized to form that experien…
Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics
Hegel on Philosophy in History
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
Adaptive Naturalism in Herder’s Aesthetics: An Interpretation of “Shakespeare”
History, Biology, and Philosophical Anthropology in Kant and Herder
CHAPTER 11. Kant’s Account of Practical Fanaticism
Kames's Naturalist Aesthetics and the Case of Tragedy
In this essay, I discuss Kames' aesthetic theory, as presented in his essay, ‘Our Attachment to Objects of Distress’ (concerning the problem of tragedy), and in Elements of Criticism. I argue that Kames' (non-)response to the problem of tragedy – that we find tragedies painful (not pleasing), yet are ‘attracted to them through the workings of the “blind instinct” of sympathy’ – is intended to call the standard formulation of the problem of traged…
Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the 'Critique of Judgment'
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book interprets the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a wh…
Expressivism and Aesthetics
Boring Beauty and Universal Morality: Kant on the Ideal of Beauty1
This paper argues that Kant's account of the “ideal of beauty” in paragraph 17 of the Critique of Judgment is not only a plausible account of one kind of beauty (“boring” beauty), but also that it can address some of our moral qualms concerning the aesthetic evaluation of persons, including our psychological propensity to take a person's beauty to represent her moral character
Boring Beauty and Universal Morality: Kant on the Ideal of Beauty1
This paper argues that Kant's account of the “ideal of beauty” in paragraph 17 of the Critique of Judgment is not only a plausible account of one kind of beauty (“boring” beauty), but also that it can address some of our moral qualms concerning the aesthetic evaluation of persons, including our psychological propensity to take a person's beauty to represent her moral character
Adam Smith on Aesthetic Imagination and Scientific Enquiry
In two posthumously published essays, 'History of Astronomy' and 'Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called The Imitative Arts', Adam Smith suggests provocatively that philosophy is an 'art of imagination' and that we take the same 'very high intellectual pleasure' in appreciating systematic scientific theories and in listening to musical 'systems', i.e., complex works of non-programmatic instrumental music. In this pap…
Expressivism and Aesthetics
Boring Beauty and Universal Morality: Kant on the Ideal of Beauty1
This paper argues that Kant's account of the “ideal of beauty” in paragraph 17 of the Critique of Judgment is not only a plausible account of one kind of beauty (“boring” beauty), but also that it can address some of our moral qualms concerning the aesthetic evaluation of persons, including our psychological propensity to take a person's beauty to represent her moral character
Expressivism and Aesthetics
Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the 'Critique of Judgment'
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book interprets the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a wh…
Kames's Naturalist Aesthetics and the Case of Tragedy
In this essay, I discuss Kames' aesthetic theory, as presented in his essay, ‘Our Attachment to Objects of Distress’ (concerning the problem of tragedy), and in Elements of Criticism. I argue that Kames' (non-)response to the problem of tragedy – that we find tragedies painful (not pleasing), yet are ‘attracted to them through the workings of the “blind instinct” of sympathy’ – is intended to call the standard formulation of the problem of traged…
CHAPTER 11. Kant’s Account of Practical Fanaticism
History, Biology, and Philosophical Anthropology in Kant and Herder
Adaptive Naturalism in Herder’s Aesthetics: An Interpretation of “Shakespeare”
Hegel on Philosophy in History
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…
Hegel on Philosophy in History
Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics
Presenting the Unpresentable: Jean-François Lyotard’s Kantian Art-Sublime
This article reconstructs Jean-François Lyotard’s theory of the sublime in contemporary art, focusing on his claim that such art ‘presents’ the unpresentable, and tracing its origins in Kant’s account of the sublime. I propose that Lyotard identifies a difficulty concerning Kant’s account: to understand why the disparate elements in the experience of the sublime (idea of reason, sensible representation) should be synthesized to form that experien…
Memorial for Charles W. Mills
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Adam Smith on Aesthetic Imagination and Scientific Enquiry
In two posthumously published essays, 'History of Astronomy' and 'Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called The Imitative Arts', Adam Smith suggests provocatively that philosophy is an 'art of imagination' and that we take the same 'very high intellectual pleasure' in appreciating systematic scientific theories and in listening to musical 'systems', i.e., complex works of non-programmatic instrumental music. In this pap…
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Beauty (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Naturalism (3 works)