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Political theory and the enlarged mentality.
 9780367372774, 0367372770

Table of contents :
1. The Enlarged Mentality in Kant's Third Critique1.1 `Subjective universality' and the Kantian aesthetic1.2 The `enlarged mentality' as a collective epistemology1.3 Politicizing disinterested pleasure1.4 The object in reflective judgement2. The Enlarged Mentality in Political Theory2.1 Readings of the Sensus Communis2.2 Hannah Arendt and the political relevance of enlarged thought2.3 Arendt's Aristotelian sensus communis2.4 Sociability and the cultivation of taste2.5 The merging of spectatorship and action2.6 Arendt's critique of Kant2.7 The balance of spectatorship and action in a healthy public sphere2.8 Storytelling and the perspective of the world3. Judging from the perspective of the world3.1 Enlargement versus consensus3.2 Enlargement versus public morality3.3 Enlargement versus agonism3.4 Enlargement versus empathy4. An Enlarged Mentality for the present: facing reality together4.1 Arendt's phenomenological heritage4.2 The Human Condition and the world `in-between'4.3 Beyond Arendt's critique of modernity4.4 World alienation and populating the space between men4.5 Postphenomenology5. Conclusion

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