Susan Shell is Professor of Political Science at the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. Shell joins the podcast to discuss her new book, The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste, from Cambridge University Press. Listen below as Shell discusses the way that Kant’s “critical treatment of aesthetic judgment is both an extended theoretical response to influential predecessors and contemporaries” and “a practical intervention in its own right meant to nudge history forward at a time of civilizational crisis.”
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