Visible, the Sublime and the Sensus Communis

Tamar Japaridze holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.  Currently, she is a Professor at the Ilia State University’s Faculty of the Arts and Sciences in Georgia. Her research interests are in the areas of the European History of Ideas, the Enlightenment, Ethics, and Aesthetics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction. The Project of the Third Critique.- Chapter 2.The Sublime Vision. Kant’s Discovery: a priori Sensibility, Pleasure and Pain and the Sensus Communis.- Chapter 3.The Sublime Vision and Beauty/Parergon.- Chapter 4. Art:the Visible.- Chapter 5.Platonism and the Veil of the Goddess of Nature. A Copy Theory of Art.- Chapter 6.The Illusion of Reality- The Molyneax Debate: Cecity as a Philosophical Insight.- Chapter 7. Magnitudes:the Sublime.- Chapter 8. Dennis Diderot and the Secrete Geometry of the Living: Saunderson’s Sublime Vision.- Chapter 9. Diderot: An Art Critic; between Honesty and Fidelity.-Chapter 10. The Reception of the Third Critique: German Idealism and Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno.