Abstract

This paper is an inquiry about the twofold sense of "esthetic" in Kant: as theory of the object as phenomenon and as theory of the subject, as it appears in the discussion about taste and genie in the 3rd Kantian Critique. The absence of a "transcendental aesthetics" in the Critique of the Faculty of Judgment - work dealing with the esthetical judgment - is a matter of interrogation. The analyses are leading to a theory of the subject of the Critique of the Faculty of Judgment which takes the form of a phenomenology of the internal sense and further as a phenomenology of time consciousness. Henceforth the Kantian esthetics can be envisaged as an esthetic without object and even without work of art