Kant's accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the . Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a , which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. examines the themes of appearance and judgment against the background of Kant's debt to Leibniz and Shaftesbury. Drawing upon treatments by Husserl, Sartre, Ricoeur and Arendt, Kleist delineates the proto-phenomenological method through which Kant uncovers the idea of a . Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality. This volume will prove valuable for anyone interested in a fresh approach to themes at the heart of Kant's aesthetics. weiterlesen