Edmund Husserl and Immanuel Kant under the Postmodern Condition: Jean-François Lyotard’s Theory of Aesthetic Reflection

Ma Xiaoyuan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2) : 109-116.

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2) : 109-116.
Western Literary Theory and Aesthetics Studies

Edmund Husserl and Immanuel Kant under the Postmodern Condition: Jean-François Lyotard’s Theory of Aesthetic Reflection

  • Ma Xiaoyuan

    上海外国语大学文学研究院助

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Edmund Husserl inherits Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy, criticizing psychologism and putting forward a method of phenomenological reflection based on the critique of knowledge. This method is utilized by Lyotard to decipher Kant’s aesthetic reflection, in order to criticize modern grand narratives. From the perspective of phenomenology, aesthetic reflection is in the first place heuristic transcendental reflection, which secures the foundation of perception in the process of cognition and limits the effective scale of cognitive faculties. Therefore, the transcendental knowledge is eliminated. Furthermore, aesthetic reflection, a type of aesthetic feeling that constitutes the power of reflective judgement, is tautegorical. It therefore maintains the immanence of reflection and purity of critique, preventing direct correlations between critique of knowledge and the object of cognition. This critique of knowledge has laid evidential foundation for cognition and for the elaboration of postmodern sublime aesthetics and ethics.

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Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard / aesthetic reflection / critique of knowledge / Immanuel Kant / Edmund Husserl

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2022, 42(2): 109-116

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This article is supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M661585).

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