Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

Beiner and Nedelsky have put togther a fine volume that is a must-read for anyone interested in the problem of judgment. We make judgments every day in law, culture, and politics. And yet, in late modern plural societies it is harder than ever to account for those judgments. Why are they not mere expressions of the institutional power held by judges, critics, or statesmen? Taking Kant and Arendt as their points of departure, the essays in this timely and valuable volume answer that question by exploring the conditions and aspirations of judgment in late modernity. -- Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University This lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment. * CHOICE * A valuable scholarly resource: this volume collects, for the first time, the most important essays on judgment written in the last half century. With a clear, thorough, and very helpful introduction by Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky. -- Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois, Chicago This collection on Arendt's work is to be welcomed as a a scholarly and pedagogical tool. Beiner and Nedelsky have collected many probing essays that might otherwise be overlooked. And having all of these essays together allows one to easily see the sweep of issues that is entailed by Arendt's thoughts on judgment. * Philosophy in Review *

Ronald Beiner is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Jennifer Nedelsky is professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Toronto.

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy Chapter 3 The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance Chapter 4 Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy Chapter 5 Moral Judgment Chapter 6 The Public Use of Reason Part 7 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging Chapter 8 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures Chapter 9 Judgment, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy Chapter 10 The Judgment of Arendt Chapter 11 Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason Chapter 13 Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought Chapter 14 Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought Chapter 15 Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law Chapter 16 When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment Chapter 17 Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique