Reading Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment

Our meetings will be by zoom. We shall start with two sessions devoted to the Introduction (the one published in the first edition of the book, not the original draft Introduction which was first published in 1914 in its entirety). 

 We are using the translation by Guyer and Matthews (CUP 2001) as our main reference point, probably with some of us using other translations or the German original (e.g. Meiner 2001), which is also available online. 

 Our provisional sequence of meetings will be, on Wednesdays at 5–6.30 pm: 

12 October, 26 October, 9 November, 23 November, 7 December and 21 December (tbc).   

If you wish to receive the zoom link, please get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk). 

 

 New Reading planned for the academic year 2022–23    

We decided after our last meeting that we would read Kant's Critique of Judgment in the next academic year. 

We are likely to restart our fortnightly Wednesday meetings in September, and we may use as our main English translation the relevant volume by Matthews and Guyer in the Cambridge Kant series (Critique of the Power of Judgment, CUP 2000). 

We will meet by zoom. 

If you wish to join the group, please get in touch with Alex: alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

 We will meet for the last time this academic year on Wed 1 June to tackle the final Chapter of Nancy's The Muses, "The Vestige of Art". 

We will also discuss what to read in the next academic year. 

 Our next meeting on 18 May will be devoted to chapter 4, "Painting in the Grotto" (up to page 79). For zoom link or text get in touch with Alex (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk).

 On 4 May we will meet to discuss the third chapter in Nancy's The Muses, "On the Threshold" (up to p. 67) 

See also: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062304

 

Our next meeting is devoted to "The Girl Who Succeeds the Muses", in Nancy's The Muses: 20 April 5pm.

Second meeting on Nancy's The Muses on 6 April

We spent our time yesterday discussing some of the key themes up to page 24. We had a GREAT time doing so. 

We will meet on 6 April to discuss in particular themes from the second half of Nancy's first Chapter, up to page 39.