Efeitos do universal a partir da estética de Kant

Abstract

In this paper I intend to discuss Meg Armstrong’s 1996 essay entitled “The effects of blackness: Gender, Race, and the
Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant”. I am ready to accept her view on the role played by aesthetic discourses in the construction of subjectivity, as well as her negative evaluation of Kant’s pre-critical Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime as being ultimately based on sheer ideology, so that they can be off-hand dismissed as in the end making no great contributions to contemporary philosophy. However, I cannot quite accept her ironic, sarcastic and eventually mocking assessment of the transcendental critical system into which Kant strove to insert the Critique of the Power of Judgment. I will try to bring out the importance of Kant’s universalism and what I will call “pespectivism” in Kant ́s radically revised views in this Critique.