Tag Archives: Immanuel Kant

Androgyny: Woolf Against Gender

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Just as a perspective need not be actually perceived by anyone, so a ‘life’ need not be actually lived by anyone. — Bertrand Russell So, what exactly is Virginia Woolf saying about the need to get over gender? Clearly, she … Continue reading →

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Art Contributes Nothing To Knowledge, Which Is Precisely Why We Need It So Very Much – Kant’s Analytic of The Beautiful

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The judgement of taste, therefore, is not a cognitive judgement, and so not logical, but is aesthetic – which means that it is one whose determining ground cannot be other than subjective. Every reference of representations is capable of being … Continue reading →

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Kantian Teleology: “Purposiveness without a Purpose”

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Impossible not to think of the concept of the Bildungstrieb, and development through dynamic reversals of polarity, while watching Noumenon Mobilus, by Alwin Nikolai. NOUMENON, plural Noumena: In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the thing-in-itself (das Ding an sich) as … Continue reading →

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The Nightmare Will Be Archived: Our Culture of Disaster

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

The Kantian turn in philosophy marks a point at which the familiar opposition between Culture and Nature is problematized. Each becomes the ideal means through which to view the other. We will never adequately understand and explain living forms and … Continue reading →

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A “Beautiful” Mind

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

If we wish to discern whether anything is beautiful or not, we do not refer the representation of it to the object by means of understanding with a view to cognition, but by means of the imagination (acting perhaps in … Continue reading →

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Rossy de Palma

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Flowers are free beauties of nature. Hardly anyone but a botanist knows the true nature of a flower, and even he, while recognizing in the flower the reproductive organ of the plant, pays no attention to this natural end when … Continue reading →

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