ABSTRACT
In essay From Blindness to blindness: Museums, Heterogeneity and the Subject' the sociologist Kevin Hetherington discusses what he calls the Kantian gaze of the connoisseur'. The Kantian eye' is disinterested and seeks to make it possible to make claims about the beauty of an object that can be taken as universal and communicated to an aesthetic community'. Hetherington suggests that there is a close connection between the kind of seeing that was developed in the Renaissance with the development of linear perspective and the types of object collections that emerged at the time. At the end of From Blindness to blindness' Hetherington suggests that now the fluid of heterogeneity that was once inside the eye is placed outside, the eye no longer attains the privileged position of being able to represent the subject, where once we were blind to our subjectivity, now blindness is the character of our subjectivity.
