{"product_id":"enthusiasm-the-kantian-critique-of-history-9780804738996","title":"Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnthusiasm\u003c\/i\u003e studies what Kant calls a \"strong\" sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard's analysis, preparatory to his work in \u003ci\u003eThe Differend\u003c\/i\u003e and subsequent publications, is a radical rereading of the Kantian \"faculties,\" traditionally understood as functions of the mind, in terms of a philosophy of phrases derived from Lyotard's prior encounters with Wittgenstein's theory of language games. The result is a kind of \"fourth\" critique based in Kant's later political and historical writings, with an emphasis on understanding the place of those sudden and unscripted events that have the power to reshape the political\/historical landscape (such as the French Revolution, May 1968, and others).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Fran?ois Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist best known for his theories of postmodernity (\u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, 1979) and for his wide-ranging work on questions of justice, judgment, politics and aesthetics. Among his most influential books are \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/i\u003e (1953); \u003ci\u003eDiscourse\/Figure\u003c\/i\u003e (1972); \u003ci\u003eLibidinal Economics\u003c\/i\u003e (1974); \u003ci\u003eJust Gaming\u003c\/i\u003e (1979); \u003ci\u003eThe Differend\u003c\/i\u003e (1983); \u003ci\u003eThe Inhuman\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); \u003ci\u003eLessons on the Analytic of the Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (1991); and \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Fables\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845337944338,"sku":"9780804738996","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b786c46f-cb39-4a02-842b-62027ecdbae9.jpg?v=1737348650","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/enthusiasm-the-kantian-critique-of-history-9780804738996","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}