A relação dos conceitos do belo e do sublime na representação dos gêneros

Abstract

It is known that Kant discoursed about the feelings of the beautiful and sublime in different moments of his philosophy. The first occurrence seems to be in Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime (1764). And there, precisely, genders are represented by such sentiments. It’s use, then, the Critique of Judgment (1790) to present a possible justification for the assigning of the quality of the beautiful to woman and of the sublime to the man. Nowhere, it is intended to submit Observations under the critical perspective and vice-versa. However, the examination of the arguments disposed in the third critique allows to determine a relation between these works, because of the representation of genders by refined feelings of pleasure. To this end, it is use an assumption of the cultural character, namely, in the history of the West, the man appears related to culture, while the woman is in the context of nature.