Kant and the Feeling of Life: Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment - Hardcoverby Jennifer Mensch (Editor), Jennifer Mensch (Introduction by) Kant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant's concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant's approach to aesthetics and teleology but the underlying unity of the Critique of Judgment itself. The "feeling of life," which Kant describes as affecting us in various ways as animating, enlivening, and quickening the mind lies at the heart of Kant's philosophical project,