The Linguistic Condition: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of Action

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Providing a unique interpretation of Kant's theory of judgement as integral to his overall project, Claudia Brodsky explores his continued relevance to contemporary theoretical concerns. The Linguistic Condition traces how Kant combined sensus communis, or common sense with the communicative nature of judgement to reveal that, for him, acts of judgement are dependent on their linguistic articulation, so that in Kantian philosophy language and judgement are inextricably linked. In this first in-depth analysis of language in the Critique of Judgement, Brodsky forms creative connections between literature and philosophy.

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Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acting upon ConditionChapter One. Introduction: Before Judgment: Doing without Knowing in Kant and DiderotPart I. Linguistic ConditionsChap. Two. "The Condition of Judgment:" Kant's "Common Sense," or the Origin of Language in the Third Critique1. "'Common Sense'" and Signification, or What is Not Tautology2. "Technique"3. "Free"4. "Feeling"5. Speech Act and "Communicability"6. Rousseau's Nouns7. Diderot's Adjectives8. Kant's Predicates: "Synthetic Judgments a Priori" and "A General Voice"9. "The Schema," or Language Inside10. What is Articulation?11. World Without Words: WordsworthPart II. Missing Senses and Poetics Chap. Three. "Judgment" and the Genesis of What We Lack: "Poetry," "Schema,"and the "Monogram of Imagination" in Kant1. "Judgment" in the "Age of Critique"2. Judgment and "Indifference:" The "Common Sense" of Imagination in Arendtand Kant3. The Schema and the Language of Poetry4. Poetry and the Judgment of CritiqueChap. Four. Kleist's Mere Formalities 1. Kant and Kleist: Representation and Irony2. What happened: Missed Representation and Misrepresentationin "Die Marquise von O…"3. Contesting "Judgment" in "The Duel"BibliographyPrimary BibliographySecondary Bibliography

Review

This is a nigh-monumental, clearly arranged and clearly argued book on the most basic terminological elements of Kant's Critique of Judgment—which turn out (not surprisingly) to be key to the whole critical enterprise. Brodsky weaves her treatments of those Kantian elements with analyses of their repercussions on the philosophical and literary legacy of a range of thinkers. * Karen Feldman, Professor of German, University of California, Berkeley, USA *Challenging the canon of received notions about Kant and his project of critique, Brodsky's brilliant newest book recovers the critical moment in Kant's theory of judgment as the third and decisive critical force that underpins Kant's critical project: the linguistic condition. Along the way, the book offers stunning explorations of Rousseau and Diderot as fellow travelers on the critical trajectory they share. Provocative, dazzling, and revelatory, Brodsky liberates Kant from a reception that has alternatively reduced his Critique of Judgment to an aesthetics or a philosophy of nature, illuminating the central linchpin Kant here explores: the power to speak "in a general voice" he so enigmatically calls Gemeinsinn, which allows us to judge but resists the conceptual grasp that any epistemology presupposes. Anything but "Common Sense" of the various longstanding varieties that attempt to conflate commonplace notions with the "grounds" on which we think and speak, Kant opens here a new line of investigation we are yet to fully appreciate. The final chapter offers compelling readings of the elusiveness of judgment in Kleist that demonstrate the poet's profound affinity with exactly this Kantian concern, and the philosopher's critical affinity with literature. * Willi Goetschel, Professor of German and Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada *

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The first book to discuss the role of language in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement.

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"This is a nigh-monumental, clearly arranged and clearly argued book on the most basic terminological elements of Kant's Critique of Judgment- which turn out (not surprisingly) to be key to the whole critical enterprise. Brodsky weaves her treatments of those Kantian elements with analyses of their repercussions on the philosophical and literary legacy of a range of thinkers." -- Karen Feldman, Professor of German, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Challenging the canon of received notions about Kant and his project of critique, Brodsky's brilliant newest book recovers the critical moment in Kant's theory of judgment as the third and decisive critical force that underpins Kant's critical project: the linguistic condition. Along the way, the book offers stunning explorations of Rousseau and Diderot as fellow travelers on the critical trajectory they share. Provocative, dazzling, and revelatory, Brodsky liberates Kant from a reception that has alternatively reduced his Critique of Judgment to an aesthetics or a philosophy of nature, illuminating the central linchpin Kant here explores: the power to speak "in a general voice" he so enigmatically calls Gemeinsinn, which allows us to judge but resists the conceptual grasp that any epistemology presupposes. Anything but "Common Sense" of the various longstanding varieties that attempt to conflate commonplace notions with the "grounds" on which we think and speak, Kant opens here a new line of investigation we are yet to fully appreciate. The final chapter offers compelling readings of the elusiveness of judgment in Kleist that demonstrate the poet's profound affinity with exactly this Kantian concern, and the philosopher's critical affinity with literature." -- Willi Goetschel, Professor of German and Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada

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Details ISBN1350217352 Author Professor Claudia Brodsky Short Title The Linguistic Condition Pages 272 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1350217352 ISBN-13 9781350217355 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-12-29 Subtitle Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of Action DEWEY 121 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-12-29 UK Release Date 2022-12-29 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-12-28 We've got this

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