Modernism şi axiologie. Perspectiva kantiană
Modernism and Axiology. The Kantian Approach

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the path towards modern art’s autonomy as exposed in Kant’s Critique of Judgment from a political perspective. While the idea of art’s autonomy is currently perceived as the result of the progressist modern view on the independent and complementary character of the human spiritual faculties, from a political perspective the beautiful becomes autonomous as a result of the process of resetting the power relations between the fundamental cultural values – ethical, theoretical and aesthetical –, a repositioning determined by the modern abandoning of the traditional metaphysical view of the world. The analysis is sustained by Jean Luc Nancy’s and Terry Eagleton’s theories of the sublime, by Jacques Derrida’s theory of the supplement, as well as by Ernst Cassirer’s and Jean Baudrillard’s ideas on the cultural and symbolic revolutions.

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