ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the apparently unrelated topic of aesthetics. Aesthetics is part of a universal system of philosophy rather than a specific theory. The name, aesthetics, and the Romantic subject - qua empirico-transcendental doublet - are, in a very deep sense, born and bound together in the complicity of an interminable, radical neoteinia. Given the 'curiously high priority' of aesthetics for modem philosophy, it is noteworthy, as Alan Singer has remarked that there is an 'increasing animus against the category of the aesthetic. The chapter provides an overview of Immanuel Kant's ponderous Critiques, in which he attempts to delineate the limits of all human knowledge whatsoever - whether cognitive, ethical, or aesthetic. The Kantian critique is obsessed with isolating and localizing forms of judgment in their appropriate realms. In Kant's attempts to do so, he quickly runs into the various aporias of judgment that his own treatment entails.
