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  • Presenting the Unpresentable: Jean-François Lyotard’s Kantian Art-Sublime

  • Rachel Zuckert
  • Journal:
    Kantian Review / Volume 26 / Issue 4 / December 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 October 2021, pp. 549-565
    Print publication:
    December 2021

  • This article reconstructs Jean-François Lyotard’s theory of the sublime in contemporary art, focusing on his claim that such art ‘presents’ the unpresentable, and tracing its origins in Kant’s account of the sublime. I propose that Lyotard identifies a difficulty concerning Kant’s account: to understand why the disparate elements in the experience of the sublime (idea of reason, sensible representation) should be synthesized to form that experience. Lyotard recasts this difficulty as a pragmatic problem for artistic practice – how to ‘testify’ to the absolute in a non-absolute, sensibly perceivable object (the artwork) – that can be understood to drive avant-garde artistic experimentation.

  • 6 - The System of Transcendental Ideas

  • from Part II - The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic
  • Marcus Willaschek, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Book:
    Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
    Published online:
    09 November 2018
    Print publication:
    29 November 2018, pp 167-186

  • Summary

    A central aspect of Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic is his claim that there are concepts – the transcendental ideas – that necessarily arise from rational reflection. According to Kant, these ideas of reason, like the categories of the understanding, form an a priori system. In Chapter 6, we first look at Kant’s conception of transcendental ideas and survey the system they form. Next, it is argued that Kant does not attempt to derive the transcendental ideas in questionable ways from the forms of rational inferences or the possible relations between subject, object, and representation (even though the text suggests this), but rather considers them, much more plausibly, as concepts we arrive at through rational inferences about specific (psychological, cosmological, and theological) subject matters. The central philosophical point here is that concepts can be the result of (what Kant calls) ‘necessary inferences of reason.’ A first instance of this is Kant’s derivation of the concept of the unconditioned; the chapter then turns to the three classes of transcendental ideas (psychological, cosmological, theological).