Keren Gorodeisky

Education

PhD, Boston University

About Me

Gorodeisky's work explores the distinctive character of human beings and the human form of life by focusing on: (1) the distinctive affective character, rationality, and value of our aesthetic engagements, (2) the spontaneous-receptive character of human emotions, which, I argue, are distinctively rational exercises of human agency, yet receptive and embodied ways of being in the world, and (3) our second-personal relationships to each other. Gorodeisky's first monograph, "Beholden to Beauty: Aesthetic Value and The Authority of Pleasure," is forthcoming with OUP. 

Gorodeisky and Eric Marcus were selected as the winners of the second Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize for their paper “Aesthetic Rationality." Gorodeisky was the 2012-13 Phillip Quinn Felllow at the National Humanities Center. View a full list of publications.

Research Interests

aesthetics, Kant, rationality, pleasure, value

Publications

• "A New Look at Kant's Account of Testimony," The British Journal of Aesthetics, 50 (2010): 53-70
• "A Tale of Two Faculties," The British Journal of Aesthetics, 51 (2011): 415-436
• "19th Century Romantic Aesthetics," in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• “Pleasure and Value: Comments on Mohan Matthen’s ‘The Pleasure of Art’,” Australasian Philosophical Review, 1.1 (2017)
• “Aesthetic Rationality,” Journal of Philosophy, 115:3 (2018): 113-140 (co-authored with Eric Marcus)
• “May Pleasure be an Exercise of Rational Agency? A Kantian Proposal” in Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Pleasure, ed. Lisa Shapiro (Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2018).
• "Unity in Variety: Theoretical, Practical and Aesthetic Reason in Kant” in The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism, eds. Gerad Gentry and Constantin Pollok (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2019)
• “On Liking Aesthetic Value,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming in 2019)
• “The Authority of Pleasure,” Nôus (forthcoming in 2019)
• “Reflection,” The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wüerth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, forthcoming)
• “Form,” The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wüerth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, forthcoming)