Reviews for Love and beauty

The average rating for Love and beauty based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-03 00:00:00 Samantha Goldsberry I have always found Lyotard's work to be incredibly lucid and generous toward those philosophers he takes up. This book works as an exceptional example of Lyotard's approach. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Kant's Critique of Judgment, and in so doing gives a reading that helps to elucidate the entire critical project. The book focuses on the importance of the faculty of judgment for Kant's aesthetic theory, demonstrating how Kant distinguishes between judgment, understanding and reason to develop his key concepts for aesthetic theory: pleasure, disinterestedness and Sensus Communis. Each of these is distinguished in turn from understanding and will, while at that same time, Lyotard shows their importance for understanding the role of orientation, schematism and production of concepts in the Critique of Pure Reason as well as the production of ideas with a moral imperative in the Critique of Practical Reason. A pleasure to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-18 00:00:00 Jerome Blancher Every time I read Lyotard, I feel that I'm in the presence of a master. This is the finest explication de texte I have ever read. Lyotard pays close attention to the main problems of Kantian philosophy as they relate to the third Critique, and defines Kant's idiomatic terminology in Kant's own words. I was surprised to find out these are Lyotard's lecture notes, and that he has another book on Kant. I'd definitely be motivated to read his other book, because this was incisive. To say this is a mere explication belies the far more postmodern reading he's bringing to bear on Kant. Specifically, Lytotard emphasizes his own concept of the differend in Kant's antinomies, but far more importantly, Lyotard deconstructs Kant's critique. Kant is shown to be insufficient by his own terms upon a deeper analysis: "The table [of categories] also reminds us that the final end is not finality: the concept of first causality or freedom is given by reason as the end to will; finality (paradoxical in the case of the sublime), which is expressed in aesthetic feeling, is subjectively 'judged' (tautegorically, as sensation) by a power of judgment that operates without the mediation of a concept." That said, he's quite generous and faithful in his reading of Kant. That said, one should heed the book's warning that it is not an introduction to Kant's Critique of Judgment, nor is it a substitute for reading the text.