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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