Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty : : Perspectives from Kantian and Contemporary Aesthetics / / ed. by Larissa Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Larissa,; Gorodeisky, Keren,; Guyer, Paul,; Hilgers, Thomas,; Hughes, Fiona,; McIver Lopes, Dominic,; Schmalzried, Lisa,; Shelley, James,; Velotti, Stefano,; Wenzel, Christian Helmut,; Zangwill, Nick,
• HerausgeberIn: Berger, Larissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 282 p.)

The conception of disinterested pleasure is not only central to Kant’s theory of beauty but also highly influential in contemporary philosophical discourse about beauty. However, it remains unclear, what exactly disinterested pleasure is and what role it plays in experiences of beauty. This volume sheds new light on the conception of disinterested pleasure from the perspectives of both Kant scholarship and contemporary aesthetics. In the first part, the focus is on Kant’s theory of beauty as grounded on the conception of disinterested pleasure. In the second part, disinterested pleasure is investigated in the light of contemporary debates on beauty. The volume clarifies the meaning, role, and implications of one of the most influential conceptions in traditional as well as contemporary approaches to beauty.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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