Thursday, March 7, 2013

A Beautiful Book:

On Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

 

"The Critique of Judgment might seem to play merely a marginal role in Kant’s system. But when Whitehead says that philosophy should begin with a critique of pure feeling,” instead of reason, this amounts to putting the Third Critique first. For Whitehead, affect precedes cognition, and has a much wider scope than cognition. Understanding and morality alike must therefore be subordinated to aesthetics. It is only after the subject has constructed or synthesized itself out of its feelings, out of its encounters with the world, that it can then go on to understand that world—or to change it." p. 15

Review:

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24202-without-criteria-kant-whitehead-deleuze-and-aesthetics/

Steven Shaviro, Without Criteria

 

No comments:

Post a Comment