Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

DRAFT: PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION On Whitehead and Deleuze: The Process of Materiality

In his long career, Whitehead was, variously, a mathematician, speculative physicist, historian of science, philosopher of science, and philosopher in his own right. As such, he occupies a perhaps unique place within recent western thought. Not only did he advance scientific thought, he also developed a novel, systematic philosophical understanding of science based on a deep historical apprecia...

6 Kant After LeWitt : Towards an Aesthetics of Conceptual Art ∗

Conceptual Art is generally portrayed as a rejection of aesthetic theory as an adequate basis for understanding artistic value or significance. In what follows I want to see whether one can understand Conceptual Art, contrary to this orthodox art-historical and philosophical narrative, in aesthetic terms—but without fundamentally distorting the nature of the work.1 Perhaps even more outlandishl...

Chapter 6 Modes of Violence : Deleuze , Whitehead , Butler and the Challenges of Dialogue Jeffrey

20. Aesthetics and Morality in Kant and Confucius: A Second Step

In the framework of his transcendental philosophy Kant strictly separates morality from aesthetics. The pleasure in the good and the pleasure in the beautiful are two different kinds of pleasure (zwei Arten des Wohlgefallens). As a consequence, a moral act as such cannot be beautiful. Only in a second step does Kant indicate possible connections between morality and aesthetics in his comments o...

Deleuze, Guattari and Emergence