Lecciones sobre la Analítica de lo sublime: (Kant, Crítica de la facultad de juzgar, § 23-29)

by Jean-François Lyotard

Kant se vuelve para Lyotard una referencia de dos fenómenos contemporá el arte que busca escapar de la prisión de la figuración, y la experiencia de lo irrepresentable a causa de los fenómenos concentracionarios y de exterminio.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory, 20th Century, Art

301 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Jean-François Lyotard (DrE, Literature, University of Paris X, 1971) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition.

He went to primary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and later began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. After graduation, in 1950, he took a position teaching philosophy in Constantine in French East Algeria. He married twice: in 1948 to Andrée May, with whom he had two daughters, and for a second time in 1993 to the mother of his son, who was born in 1986.

Reviews

[Nada Elshabrawy · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the most accessible explanation of Kant’s critiques that I have read. At least it was made easier along with the great documentary made by Then&Now on Kant along with the series on Kant by PhilosophizeThis.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have always found Lyotard’s work to be incredibly lucid and generous toward those philosophers he takes up. This book works as an exceptional example of Lyotard’s approach. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Kant’s Critique of Judgment, and in so doing gives a reading that helps to elucidate the entire critical project. The book focuses on the importance of the faculty of judgment for Kant's aesthetic theory, demonstrating how Kant distinguishes between judgment, understanding and reason to develop his key concepts for aesthetic theory: pleasure, disinterestedness and Sensus Communis. Each of these is distinguished in turn from understanding and will, while at that same time, Lyotard shows their importance for understanding the role of orientation, schematism and production of concepts in the Critique of Pure Reason as well as the production of ideas with a moral imperative in the Critique of Practical Reason. A pleasure to read.

[Derek Frasure · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every time I read Lyotard, I feel that I'm in the presence of a master. This is the finest explication de texte I have ever read. Lyotard pays close attention to the main problems of Kantian philosophy as they relate to the third Critique, and defines Kant's idiomatic terminology in Kant's own words. I was surprised to find out these are Lyotard's lecture notes, and that he has another book on Kant. I'd definitely be motivated to read his other book, because this was incisive. To say this is a mere explication belies the far more postmodern reading he's bringing to bear on Kant. Specifically, Lytotard emphasizes his own concept of the differend in Kant's antinomies, but far more importantly, Lyotard deconstructs Kant's critique. Kant is shown to be insufficient by his own terms upon a deeper analysis: "The table [of categories] also reminds us that the final end is not finality: the concept of first causality or freedom is given by reason as the end to will; finality (paradoxical in the case of the sublime), which is expressed in aesthetic feeling, is subjectively 'judged' (tautegorically, as sensation) by a power of judgment that operates without the mediation of a concept." That said, he's quite generous and faithful in his reading of Kant. That said, one should heed the book's warning that it is not an introduction to Kant's Critique of Judgment, nor is it a substitute for reading the text.

[يوسف عبداللطيف · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brilliantly structured analysis offering a fresh perspective, 'Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)' by Jean-François Lyotard, unraveling subtle details that are often overlooked in mainstream discussions, a genuinely rewarding experience for avid and thoughtful readers.

[Anneliese · Rating 2.75 out of 5]

What a headache just for Kant to say reason trumps imagination because it’s able to think about the sublime and infinite.

[Whitney Borup · Rating 1 out of 5]

My translation is totally incomprehensible. And I think he slips between certain Kantian ideas to serve his own purpose (which won't be clear until his next publications). Sloppy.