Abstract
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.
Keywords
Jean-François Lyotard, aesthetic reflection, critique of knowledge, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl
First Page
109
Last Page
116
Recommended Citation
Ma, Xiaoyuan. 2022. "Edmund Husserl and Immanuel Kant under the Postmodern Condition: Jean-François Lyotard’s Theory of Aesthetic Reflection." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 42, (2): pp.109-116. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol42/iss2/32
