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Date: 28 Dec 95 12:38:21 EST
From: Jonathan Judaken <75573.2042-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: meta-narratives


I thought Bill Schaffer's post on 'the unrepresentable' made some exceptionally
difficult concepts in L's work really clear.  Thank you.

 Bill wrote: "L treats sublimity as some sort of 'challenge' to the rest of the
Kantian system, whereas I would argue that it is the lynchpin! The one who does
look at this very closely, aside from Hegel, is Derrida in "Economimesis". The
sublime is also a recurrent theme for the Lacanian cultural therist, Slavoj
Zizek)."  

Deleuze's book on Kant, *Kant's Critical Philosophy* as I recall, makes a
similar argument to the one that you suggest here (that the sublime is the
lynchpin to Kant's entire critical project--the possibility of the three
critiques hangs together on the impossibility of the sublime (as does the
relation between the faculties).  However, Deleuze's point is to show that this
being the case, this problematizes the entire edifice of the Kantian project
which seeks an harmonious equilibrium between the faculties, rather than a
dissension between the demands of reason and the lack of power of the
imagination./J



   

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