Keren Gorodeisky is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. Her work explores the aesthetic, emotional, and interpersonal dimensions of human life as both rational and vulnerable. She has written about aesthetics, emotions, reasons, agency, Kant, German Romanticism, Iris Murdoch, Simone de Beauvoir, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction Part I. The Merit Account: Basics 1: On Merit: The Case of Values 2: On Pleasure: The Exercise of Taste 3: On Relation: Reciprocal Dependence in Independence 4: On Cognition: Revealing Feelings 5: On Aesthetic Evaluation: Appreciative Feeling 6: On Intelligibility: The Transcendental Primacy of Appreciation 7: On Goodness: "Chase It and It Ceases" Part II. Mind, Self, and Others 8: Aesthetic Rationality: Neither Theoretical Nor Practical 9: Aesthetic Agency: An Alternative to the Practical Approach 10: Aesthetic Personality: The False Disjunction Between Aesthetic Universality and Personality 11: Aesthetic Universality: Defense, Support, and Appeal 12: Aesthetic Sociality: Second Person Relations Part III. Explanatory Fruits 13: Aesthetic Autonomy and Testimony 14: Aesthetic Criticism 15: Art Afterward: "It Was Some Good"

Keren Gorodeisky is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. Her work explores the aesthetic, emotional, and interpersonal dimensions of human life as both rational and vulnerable. She has written about aesthetics, emotions, reasons, agency, Kant, German Romanticism, Iris Murdoch, Simone de Beauvoir, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction Part I. The Merit Account: Basics 1: On Merit: The Case of Values 2: On Pleasure: The Exercise of Taste 3: On Relation: Reciprocal Dependence in Independence 4: On Cognition: Revealing Feelings 5: On Aesthetic Evaluation: Appreciative Feeling 6: On Intelligibility: The Transcendental Primacy of Appreciation 7: On Goodness: "Chase It and It Ceases" Part II. Mind, Self, and Others 8: Aesthetic Rationality: Neither Theoretical Nor Practical 9: Aesthetic Agency: An Alternative to the Practical Approach 10: Aesthetic Personality: The False Disjunction Between Aesthetic Universality and Personality 11: Aesthetic Universality: Defense, Support, and Appeal 12: Aesthetic Sociality: Second Person Relations Part III. Explanatory Fruits 13: Aesthetic Autonomy and Testimony 14: Aesthetic Criticism 15: Art Afterward: "It Was Some Good"

Keren Gorodeisky is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. Her work explores the aesthetic, emotional, and interpersonal dimensions of human life as both rational and vulnerable. She has written about aesthetics, emotions, reasons, agency, Kant, German Romanticism, Iris Murdoch, Simone de Beauvoir, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction Part I. The Merit Account: Basics 1: On Merit: The Case of Values 2: On Pleasure: The Exercise of Taste 3: On Relation: Reciprocal Dependence in Independence 4: On Cognition: Revealing Feelings 5: On Aesthetic Evaluation: Appreciative Feeling 6: On Intelligibility: The Transcendental Primacy of Appreciation 7: On Goodness: "Chase It and It Ceases" Part II. Mind, Self, and Others 8: Aesthetic Rationality: Neither Theoretical Nor Practical 9: Aesthetic Agency: An Alternative to the Practical Approach 10: Aesthetic Personality: The False Disjunction Between Aesthetic Universality and Personality 11: Aesthetic Universality: Defense, Support, and Appeal 12: Aesthetic Sociality: Second Person Relations Part III. Explanatory Fruits 13: Aesthetic Autonomy and Testimony 14: Aesthetic Criticism 15: Art Afterward: "It Was Some Good"