Abstract

This article investigates Kant's theory of the "sublime". It points out, that Kant's theory, which describes the intensive aesthetic feelings called forth by outstanding natural or artificial phenomena, like earthquakes, tempests or pyramids, is also extended to include a theory of death. Death, the ultimate and outstanding border of life, can also inspire this feeling of the sublime. But Kant, who prefers theories of immortality to theories of final death, manages to avoid this conclusion in his tree "critics". It was let to his disciples to develop the theory of sublime death