‘A stranger to consciousness …’ – Lyotard and the Sublime1

Sublime Art ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 48-108
Author(s):  
Stephen Zepke
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Reflective Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Heuristic Function ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Original Interpretation

Lyotard’s Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime is a book collecting his ‘unpolished’ (1994: ix) lecture notes on sections 23–29 of Kant’s Critique of Judgment. As such, they modestly present themselves as an ‘explication de texte’ while in fact being a highly original interpretation of Kant’s concept of the sublime that focuses on and indeed exemplifies the heuristic function of reflective aesthetic judgment. For Kant this judgment is neither legislating nor provable, and so is excluded from the realms of both pure and practical reason, but as a result Kant hopes it can unite the faculties by revealing the transcendental conditions of an object’s particularity beyond its a priori conditions of possibility. Reflective judgment ‘endeavours’, Lyotard tells us, ‘to “discover” a generality or a universality in them [particular objects] which is not that of their possibility but of their existence’.

scholarly journals El problema de la finalidad en la naturaleza

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Sylvia Susana Rodríguez Prieto
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Reflective Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
As If

RESUMENEl Juicio de gusto como Juicio estético parte de la contemplación de un objeto en particular. Surge de forma libre y no guarda relación alguna con una intencionalidad por parte del sujeto. En el caso de un juicio sobre lo bello se considera que atribuye cierta belleza al objeto como si se tratase de una propiedad que le caracteriza. La forma en la que se da este juicio posibilita el surgimiento de cierta universalidad del mismo en la medida en que todo aquel que pueda contemplarlo pueda distinguir la belleza en él. Pero se trata sólo de universalidad estética y no lógica. En la forma que adoptan estos objetos se advierte una finalidad de la naturaleza como condición a priori que posibilita su conocimiento. Dicha posibilidad basada en la reflexión sobre la forma de estos  viene determinada por el uso reflexionante de la facultad de juzgar.PALABRAS CLAVEJUICIO ESTÉTICO, JUICIO DE GUSTO, SUBJETIVIDAD,JUICIO REFLEXIONANTE, NATURALEZA, FINALIDAD  ABSTRACTThe judgment of taste as an aesthetic judgment is rooted in contemplation of a particular object. This judgment comes freely and has no connection with an intention by the subject. In the case of a judgment about the beautiful object is considered attributes a certain beauty to the object as if it were a property that characterizes him. The form in which appear this judgment is possible the emergence a certain of universality of him to the extent that anyone can contemplate the beauty can distinguish it. But it is just aesthetic universality and not logic universality. In the form of this objects is noticeable a finality of nature as a condition a priori that enables knowledge on them. This possibility based on the reflection about the form of these objects is determined by the reflective use of the faculty of judgment.KEY WORDSAESTHETIC JUDGMENT, JUDGMENT OF TASTE, FINALITY,REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT, NATURE, SUBJECTIVITY 

Introduction: Exiled from Oneself– Art and Other Strange Migrations …

Sublime Art ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stephen Zepke
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Is Development ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Antonio Negri

The sublime is a philosophical concept for an experience or sensation that exceeds its subjective conditions, and as such is unrepresentable. The introduction will sketch its development from Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) where it is distinguished from the beautiful and associated with terror, to Kant’s extension of it in his Critique of Judgment (1790). As Kant remains the source of all the contemporary versions of the sublime we will be concerned with, it will be important to have an understanding of his work. In particular, Kant’s affirmation of the autonomy of the aesthetic realm of sensation, and is development of the sublime as an experience that goes beyond its human conditions of possibility will be central to the book. The sublime experience itself can appear within a variety of different affects, but its dominant mode, beginning with Burke, is one of overwhelming terror and pain. Although this affect is important to its aesthetic trajectory, we shall understand the sublime in the somewhat altered sense in which Nietzsche claimed overcoming the human involved the pain of childbirth. In other words the experience of the sublime, and the emergence in Kant’s account of the transcendental realm of the Ideas that reconstitutes human subjectivity, will be rethought as a generative and aesthetic event that takes us beyond our bio-political conditions of possible experience, and expresses the vital force of the future as the transcendental dimension of our material reality. As Antonio Negri has put it, sublime art is the embodiment of an event in action, and as such ‘Art is simultaneously the creation and reproduction of the absolute singular’ (Art and Multitude (Polity press, 2011)).

An Unfamiliar and Positive Law: On Kant and Schiller

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reed Winegar
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: A familiar post-Kantian criticism contends that Kant enslaves sensibility under the yoke of practical reason. Friedrich Schiller advanced a version of this criticism to which Kant publicly responded. Recent commentators have emphasized the role that Kant’s reply assigns to the pleasure that accompanies successful moral action. In contrast, I argue that Kant’s reply relies primarily on the sublime feeling that arises when we merely contemplate the moral law. In fact, the pleasures emphasized by other recent commentators depend on this sublime feeling. These facts illuminate Kant’s views regarding the relationship between morality, freedom, and the development of moral feelings.

Immanuel Kant on the philosophy of communicology: The tropic logic of rhetoric and semiotics

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (227) ◽  
pp. 273-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Lanigan
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
A Priori ◽  
History Of Rhetoric ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Us ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe article consists of a brief biographical account of Immanuel Kant’s life and career, followed by a discussion of his basic philosophy, and a brief discussion of his pivotal point in the history of Rhetoric and Communicology. A major figure in the European Enlightenment period of Philosophy, hisCollected Writingswere first published in 1900 constituting 29 volumes. He wrote three major works that are foundational to the development of Western philosophy and the human sciences. Often just referred to as the “ThreeCritiques” informally, the First, the Second, and the Third. These are respectively:The Critique of Pure Reasonfocused on issues in logic, The Critique of Practical Reasonrelating ethical guidelines, andThe Critique of Judgmentexploring issues of aesthetics. He is most famous for his philosophy of transcendental idealism. This version of idealism argues that in logic statements areanalytic(subject and predicate are the same; no new information) orsynthetic(predicate differs from the subject; new information is constituted). He further argues that statements area priori(before experience) ora posteriori(a result of experience). Models of rhetoric (tropic logic), phenomenological methodology, and the contemporary Perspectives Model of interpersonal communicology are included as the Kantian legacy in the US. Notes provide a guide to edition and philological issues in the Kantian corpus, especially for the hermeneutics ofVorstellung(‘presentation’) versusDarstellung(‘representation’).

Natura Daedala Rerum?On the Justification of Historical Progress in Kant'sGuarantee of Perpetual Peace

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Ypi
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Highest Good ◽  
Perpetual Peace ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Teleological Argument

This article analyses the teleological argument justifying historical progress in Kant's Guarantee of Perpetual Peace. It starts by examining the controversies produced by Kant's claim that the teleology of nature supports the idea of a providential development of humanity towards moral progress and the possibility of achieving a cosmopolitan political constitution. It further illustrates how Kant's teleological argument inPerpetual Peaceneeds to be assessed with reference to two systematically relevant issues: first, the problem of coordination linked to the necessity of realizing the ‘highest good’ as a historical end of practical reason, and secondly the problem of continuity posed by the temporal limitation of all individual efforts to cultivate moral dispositions. To illustrate the implications of both issues for the teleological argument inPerpetual Peace, the article draws attention to some important developments in Kant's analysis of teleology following theCritique of Judgment.

scholarly journals Acerca de la distinción entre la capacidad de juzgar determinante y reflexionante en Kant

1999 ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Carlos Mendiola
Keyword(s):  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility

The central thesis is that already in the Critique of Pure Reason does the need for the distinction between determining and reflecting uses of Judgment arise, although its nominal formulation appears only later in the second introduction to the Critique of Judgment. The interpretative importance of this thesis lies in that, contrary to most interpretations, which claim that the distinction lies in the nature of such judgments, the author thinks of it as differentiated exercises of an identical capacity of judgment, and even as a difference that must be appreciated in the products of such capacity. Thus, any judgment of objects may at once be determining and reflecting, according to the kind of application of the concepts involved in each case. In brief, although reflection does not properly belong in the conditions of possibility of objective judgment, it is indispensable to fix the conceptual place of the particular in judgment

scholarly journals Aesthetics, ethics, and the role of Teleology in the third Critique

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (34) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Nythamar De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unity Of Reason

Kant’s dualism in anthropology and morality is said to be bridged only by means of a teleologywhich seems to betray the historical constitution of its subjectivity. And yet the Kantianarticulation of problems of theoretical and practical reason can be explored only insofar asthey help us understand the correlated problems of the unity of reason, the relation of aestheticsand ethics in the light of the three Critiques, and the teleological conception of history.In this paper, I argue for a teleological reading of the systematic architectonic so as tomake sense of the concept of purposiveness as the a priori principle of judgment in its logical,aesthetic, and teleological reflection and of the unifying, a priori principles of each faculty–namely, conformity to law, final purpose, and conformity to purpose or purposiveness(Gesetzmäßigkeit, Endzweck, Zweckmäßigkeit) – respectively dealt with in the three Critiques.

scholarly journals Aesthetics, ethics, and the role of Teleology in the third Critique

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (34) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Nythamar De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unity Of Reason

Kant’s dualism in anthropology and morality is said to be bridged only by means of a teleologywhich seems to betray the historical constitution of its subjectivity. And yet the Kantianarticulation of problems of theoretical and practical reason can be explored only insofar asthey help us understand the correlated problems of the unity of reason, the relation of aestheticsand ethics in the light of the three Critiques, and the teleological conception of history.In this paper, I argue for a teleological reading of the systematic architectonic so as tomake sense of the concept of purposiveness as the a priori principle of judgment in its logical,aesthetic, and teleological reflection and of the unifying, a priori principles of each faculty–namely, conformity to law, final purpose, and conformity to purpose or purposiveness(Gesetzmäßigkeit, Endzweck, Zweckmäßigkeit) – respectively dealt with in the three Critiques.

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