Robert R Clewis

Biographic Data

ID462099
NAMERobert R Clewis
GIVEN NAMESRobert R
FAMILY NAMEClewis
SIGNATURECLEWIS R R
AFFILIATIONSGwynedd Mercy University
ORCID0000-0003-1591-3139
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Sublime Extends to Chinese Aesthetics

    Jonathan W Johnson, Robert R ClewisARTICLEPhilosophy East and West2025

    A widespread view denies that there is a concept of the sublime in Chinese thought and philosophical aesthetics. This denial is a mistake. We examine texts and artworks that indicate that the experience of the sublime can be found in Chinese aesthetics and theories of art and aesthetic experience. To show this, we first present an overview of the sublime extracted from western writers: we describe the sublime experience’s structure, objects, and …

  • Looking Through Images

    Open AccessRobert R ClewisARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2025Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media Get access Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media. EMMANUEL ALLOA, Trans. NILS F. SCHOTT columbia university press. 2021. xiv + 391 pp. £30.00 (pbk) Robert R Clewis Robert R Clewis Gwynedd Mercy University, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayac060, https://doi.…

  • Beyond Notes on a Napkin

    Open AccessRobert R ClewisARTICLEKantian Review2024

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  • Tackled by Covid in Italy

    Robert R ClewisARTICLEItalian Americana2022

    Aristotle says all human beings aim at happiness. Maybe each culture does too. As a naturalized citizen of Italy who was born in Tampa, some of the rules have puzzled me. For instance, don't order pizza in the afternoon. (The oven is not heated up yet.) Other ones I simply love: belonging to a culture that has a pausa pranzo. Still others remind me of what grandmother used to say: Don't swim in Lake Garda after eating because you could die of a c…

  • Kant's Humorous Writings

    Robert R Clewis, Noël CarrollBOOKKant's Humorous Writings2020

    Commonly regarded as one of the most serious philosophers of all time (this is a man who took his daily walk at precisely the same time each day), Kant's Humorous Writings explores a dimension of Kant's work that has hitherto been almost entirely ignored but which casts his philosophy into a new light. With entirely new translations of Kant's bon mots, quips, and anecdotes, supplemented by historical commentary and numerous illustrations, this gu…

  • Nature, Religion, and Imagination

    Open AccessRobert R ClewisARTICLEHistory and Theory2018

    After sharing some reflections, I raise three questions. The first asks about the role of nature and reason according to Kant's teleological history, and the extent to which Kant's essays written before the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) are “dogmatic,” as his phrase “aim of nature” might suggest. The second asks about Kant's “impure” ethics and the role of religion. What would Kantian religion look like today? The last question concern…

  • Chapter 22. Kant’s Natural Teleology? The Case of Physical Geography

    Robert R ClewisCHAPTERReading Kant's Lectures2015

  • Reading Kant's Lectures

    Robert R Clewi, Robert R ClewisEDITORBOOKReading Kant's Lectures2015Cited by: 17

    This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant’s teaching in relation to his published works. With the Academy edition’s continuing publication of Kant’s lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. Several of Kant’s lectures on metaphysics, logic, ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated into E…

  • Lectures on Anthropology

    Open AccessImmanuel Kant, Robert B Louden et al.TRANSLATORBOOKLectures on Anthropology2012

    Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extens…

  • Lectures on Anthropology

    Allen W Wood, Robert B Louden et al.BOOKLectures on Anthropology2012

    Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extens…

  • Kant's consistency regarding the regime change in France

    Open AccessRobert R ClewisARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2006Cited by: 1

    Can it be consistent to be interested, for moral reasons, in the fact that uninvolved spectators of a regime change are enthusiastic about that change, when the latter is carried out according to means considered immoral or unjust? Yes. In ‘An Old Question Raised Again’ ( The Conflict of the Faculties, 1798), Kant demonstrates a morally based interest in disinterested spectators’ expressions (aesthetic judgments) of enthusiasm for the idea of a r…