A. Volynsky. Critical and Dogmatic elements in Кant's philosophy (parts XV–XVI)

Abstract

We present here sections XV–XVI of A. Volynsky’s article “Critical and Dogmatic Elements in Kant’s Philosophy”, which are devoted to an analysis of such categories of Kant’s aesthetics as “the beautiful” and “the sublime.” Volynsky emphasizes the special significance of the problem of the unity of Kant’s transcendental aesthetics and transcendental logic, as well as the unity of the critical and dogmatic foundations of his philosophy. This article is included in full in Volynsky’s A Book of Great Anger, which constructs on the basis of Kant’s categories of “the beautiful” and “the sublime” a picture of the development of Russian literature at the turn of the century, as well as a theory of the Russian ballet of the 1920s.