Chris, I found your request about Kant and sublime now, 3,15 am.
I just woke up to go and start my taxi-cab shift that will last 1 hour and
half, then I will be back home - rest for a while - and then start
conceiving a reply to your request on Kant and the sublime.
Meanwhile, I could start introducing this idea through Kant's Critique of
Judgment (Critica del giudizio) where he defines the sentiment, which is
in fact 'respect', representing our inadequacy to bring ourselves up to
the level of any idea-law.
The law of reason which cannot conceive any other universally valid idea
outside the absolute as totality, is given by the intuition of this 'all-
ness'.
Imagination on the other hand, even in its extreme effort to grasp an
object given in an intuitive absolute totality, although encounter its
limitations, also meet the unavoidability of its destination to identify
itself to this idea-law.
The sentiment of the sublime is therefore the sentiment of respect we feel
towards our potential ability to condescend to this idea-law, universal
and unattainable, which stands outside its practicality ,...so the sublime
is the respect we feel towards our human destination (the one which
potentially makes us worth a n idea-law) developed through 'intuitive'
thinking....
But more to come at a more suitable time later on, this evening...
erminia
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:39:21 +1100, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>erminia
>
>I am happy you write to the list on Kant and your fourth language english
on
>Kant explains much more then my only language english could. I didn't get
any
>Kant with my undergrad philosophy major and tried to read Critique of Pure
>Reason outside of class but it was too much with Freud, Lacan, Deleuze,
>Irrigaray, Spinoza and Kristeva's Black Sun so I gave up and I don't have
>access to Kant where I am and still I want to hear more about Kant,
>especially on the sublime. If you have the time, perhaps you and Martin
could
>say a few words on your readings of Kant's sublime? But, please, don't
feel
>pressured, only if you so wish.
>
>Chris Jones.
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