Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
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Sacha Golob
Abstract
Kant’s account of the sublime makes frequent appeals to infinity, appeals which have been extensively criticised by commentators such as Budd and Crowther. This paper examines the costs and benefits of reconstructing the account in finitist terms. On the one hand, drawing ona detailed comparison of the first and third Critiques, I argue that the underlying logic of Kant’s position is essentially finitist. I defend the approach against longstanding objections, as well as addressing recent infinitist work by Moore and Smith. On the other hand, however, I argue that finitism faces distinctive problems of its own: whilst the resultant theory is a coherent and interesting one, it is unclear in what sense it remains an analysis of the sublime. I illustrate the worry by juxtaposing the finitist reading with analytical cubism.
© 2019 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
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- List of Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
- Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
- Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
- Performative versus Orientational Hermeneutics. Gadamer’s Criticism of Kant’s Sensus Communis and its Hermeneutical Rehabilitation by Makkreel
- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
- Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique
- List of Contributors
- Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2020, 2021 and 2022
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- List of Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
- Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
- Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
- Performative versus Orientational Hermeneutics. Gadamer’s Criticism of Kant’s Sensus Communis and its Hermeneutical Rehabilitation by Makkreel
- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
- Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique
- List of Contributors
- Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2020, 2021 and 2022
