Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:44:04 -0500
From: "J.B. Sclisizzi" <jbs-AT-toronto.cbc.ca>
Subject: Re: OTB


John LeTourneux wrote:

> I think I'll just ask if anyone has any interest in, insight into, the
> distinction that Lyotard draws between his own approach to Kant and the
> "ontologizing" approach of Nancy/Heidegger

in "lessons on the analytic of the sublime," lyotard does refer to his
differences with heidegger's reading of kant:

"Without going into the intrinsic difficulties of this deduction, it would be
wrong to look for the aesthetic "subject" in a synthesis similar to that of the
_Ich denke_, the sole purpose of which is to guarantee of objectivity of
judgements.  I  would venture further.  A reading, even one like Heidegger's,
endeavouring, not without reason, to demonstrate that in the end the authentic
principle of the synthesis is not the "I think" but time -- such a reading is
valid (if it is valid) only for knowledge and can refer only to determinant
theorectical judgements." (p.  21)

lyotard goes on to say that a heterogeneity of times would be required for
"aesthetic time."

one might also point out that even heidegger later admitted the problems with
his reading of kant.  it's interesting reading, in terms of studying heidegger,
but even by the second edition of "kant and problem of metaphysics" he states,
"Readers have taken constant offense at the violence of my interpretations.
Their allegation of violence can indeed be supported by this text. ...The
instances in which I have gone astray and the shortcomings of the present
endeavour have become so clear to me on the path of thinking" etc. (p. xx)  and
again in the fourth edition, "... led me to interpret the _Critique of Pure
Reason_ from within the horizon of the manner of questioning set forth in
_being and time_.  In truth, however, Kant's question is foreign to it ...."
(p. xviii) and so on ...

for the development of lyotard's thinking on kant, you might have a look at
bennington's "Lyotard: Writing the Event."

brent ...