How have human emotions, intersubjectivity, and (self)consciousness been theorized throughout the history of philosophy? How does this connect to other disciplines?
Robert Clewis is a writer and educator. He lives between Philadelphia and Europe.
Since July 2023, he has been serving as Vice President of the North American Kant Society.
His latest book, The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics, was published by Cambridge University Press in early 2023. He is the author of Kant’s Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide (2020) as well as The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (Cambridge UP, 2009). He edited Reading Kant’s Lectures (2015) as well as the first comprehensive anthology on the sublime, The Sublime Reader (2019). He is a contributing translator in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (Cambridge UP, 2012).
He has been a visiting scholar at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019/20 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt.
Robert’s writing has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers and he was awarded the Wilfrid Sellars prize of the North American Kant Society. He is a recipient of the Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His research has most recently been supported by a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom
Reading Kant’s Lectures
The Sublime Reader
Kant’s Humorous Writings
The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics