Books by Rachel (Northwestern University Zuckert

Explores the main concepts of Herder's aesthetics: aesthetic naturalism, where art is natural to and naturally valuable for human beings, and aesthetic pluralism, where aesthetic value takes many diverse, culturally varying forms. The book will interest scholars and students working on the philosophy of art or eighteenth-century European thought.

Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book interprets the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains.