10.4225/03/59224937bb07b
Carlo Salzani
Carlo
Salzani
Alison Ross. The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2007 [Book Review]
Monash University
2017
Kant
Book Review
Critique of Judgement
Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
2017-05-22 02:13:10
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Alison_Ross_The_Aesthetic_Paths_of_Philosophy_Presentation_in_Kant_Heidegger_Lacoue-Labarthe_and_Nancy_Stanford_CA_Stanford_UP_2007_Book_Review_/5005097
The thesis of this book is clearly stated in the introduction: the thinking of Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy can (and perhaps in a significant sense must) be understood as ways of addressing the problem of presentation as framed by and inherited from Kants Critique of Judgement (4). Ross identifies in Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy a funda-mental aesthetic attitude that leads them to steer philosophy in an aes-thetic direction (1). The same aesthetic attitude that characterises Kants Critique of Judgement, that is, the search for a satisfactory mode of relation between the forms of material nature and human freedom, which results in an aesthetic use of language, becomes the framework for these thinkers approach to philosophy. Ross argues thus that this aesthetic steering of philosophy is best understood as an adaptation of the specific and technical employment of the notion of presentation [Darstellung] in Kants Critique of Judgement (1).