Феноменалност и материалност при Кант
Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant

Summary/Abstract: This text is a part of De Man’s later book Aesthetic Ideology that was assembled and published after his death. The text is a scholarly paper where the author examines Kant’s Analytic of the Sublime (Critique of the Power of Judgement), viewed in the context of transcendental philosophy and its relations to metaphysics and ideology. In De Man’s account Kant appears to hassitate between two trends. He is constantly divided between the strict transcendentalist writing that is characteristic of the mathematical sublime, and, on the other hand, the ideologized presentation of dynamic sublime that depicts intimidating objects that are nevertheless contemplated from a safe place. Kant uses different rhetorical techniques to get out of the above mentioned difficulties, thus providing abundant material for the rhetorical analysis of De Man. What De Man considers to be still valid today in Kant’s analytics, is the so called by the theorist himself „material vision“. It refers to the statement of Kant that sublime contemplation has to see objects as they are – without their conceptuaization. What we see here is the programme materialism of De Man, which he did not manage to develop due to his untimely death.

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