Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley

Published: Dec. 4, 2012, 11:08 a.m.

b"Paul Klee on space and time -- a line taken out for a walk. \\xa0Back to Kant and a tedious brief exposition of the third critique. \\xa0The beautiful as the harmonious, showing the mind as tuned or tuned up, with the willing that organizes perception or the structure of appearance coming from elsewhere, viz. the beautiful object. \\xa0(This is what Kant calls the reflective rather than regulative use of reason, and is the reason the analytic of the beautiful in the \\xa0Third Critique is so important: it shows the harmony of the mind apart from its own willfulness.) \\xa0The mathematical sublime as the will engaged under the rubric of the understanding: apprehension and its relation to comprehension. \\xa0The dynamic sublime as the will engaged under the rubric of the will. Illustration via Shelley's Mont Blanc, which we begin reading."