Abstract

BASTIDAS BOLANOS, David Antonio. Towards a brutalism of the sublime. Violence and power in the Analytic of the sublime in the Critique of the power of judgment. Estud.filos [online]. 2023, n.67, pp.89-110.  Epub Jan 24, 2023. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.349343.

The Kantian approach to the sublime in the Critique of the Power of Judgment is based on an antagonism between two faculties, Imagination and Reason. In order to understand this conflict under new conceptual coordinates, pursuing a triple exegetical, aesthetical and political interest, the aim of the present text is to develop the brutal character proper to the conceptual dynamics deployed in such an approach. Reconstructing this mouvement from the incidences of the term Gewalt, under a brutalism of the sublime, we focus on the inquiry of the violence that the Imagination experiences in its mathematical determination and, on the other hand, the power that Reason holds according to the dynamic determination of the sublime. Thus, under such a perspective, violence, power and subjective impotence appear as constitutive characters of the genesis of the feeling of the sublime within the horizon of transcendental philosophy.

Keywords : brutalism; violence; power; sublime; Gewalt; Kant.

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