ABSTRACT
A Kantian aporia presents itself within phenomenal experience, despite Kant’s best efforts to circumscribe this situation and to save knowledge of appearances by cutting off access to things in themselves. I have enacted this problem by dramatizing the relations of the Kantian faculties of understanding, imagination, reason, and intuition. The disappearance of the understanding in the Kantian sublime testifies to its ultimate failure even within the First Critique, and inaugurates a desperate struggle between reason and imagination (which Lyotard calls a differend), from which struggle I have attempted to cast doubts on whether reason necessarily emerges victorious.
