Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA.

This is a nigh-monumental, clearly arranged and clearly argued book on the most basic terminological elements of Kant’s Critique of Judgment—which turn out (not surprisingly) to be key to the whole critical enterprise. Brodsky weaves her treatments of those Kantian elements with analyses of their repercussions on the philosophical and literary legacy of a range of thinkers.

• Preface. Acting upon Condition Chapter One. Introduction: Before Judgment: Doing without Knowing in Kant and Diderot Part I. Linguistic Conditions Chap. Two. “The Condition of Judgment:” Kant’s “Common Sense,” or the Origin of Language in the Third Critique 1. “‘Common Sense’” and Signification, or What is Not Tautology 2. “Technique” 3. “Free” 4. “Feeling” 5. Speech Act and “Communicability” 6. Rousseau’s Nouns 7. Diderot’s Adjectives 8. Kant’s Predicates: “Synthetic Judgments a Priori” and “A General Voice” 9. “The Schema,” or Language Inside 10. What is Articulation? 11. World Without Words: WordsworthPart II. Missing Senses and Poetics Chap. Three. “Judgment” and the Genesis of What We Lack: “Poetry,” “Schema,”and the “Monogram of Imagination” in Kant 1. “Judgment” in the “Age of Critique” 2. Judgment and “Indifference:” The “Common Sense” of Imagination in Arendt and Kant 3. The Schema and the Language of Poetry 4. Poetry and the Judgment of Critique Chap. Four. Kleist’s Mere Formalities 1. Kant and Kleist: Representation and Irony 2. What happened: Missed Representation and Misrepresentationin “Die Marquise von O…” 3. Contesting “Judgment” in “The Duel” BibliographyPrimary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography