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)