Kant, ou, A beleza revolucionária

Abstract

Having as reference the great division proposed by scholar Graham Bird, between a revolutionary Kant who would be gaining, nowadays, a greater visibility and recognition ― as opposed to the reactionary and conservative one constructed by a certain critique tradition ― this text approaches some of the axes and topics that have shaped the reception of his aesthetic theory. Within that framework, and through the approach to authors such as Thierry de Duve and Hannah Arendt, who have contributed to an updated and differentiated lecture of Kant, this text explores the possibility of reframing a lecture of his aesthetics within the discursive scope of contemporary art and its later developments.