Passage and infinitude: the aestheticization of time in Kant’s Critique of judgement

Abstract

Abstract: According to the transcendental Aesthetic of the Critique of pure reason there are two properties of time that cannot be intellectualised: passage and infinitude. This study tries to show that these essential properties of time come to light in Kant’s Critique of judgement. The contemplation of beauty will be understood as a nonsuccesive time and the wonder which we experience in seeing the sublime will be understood through Kant’s concept of infinite moment. These two aesthetic concepts of time will be integrated in Kant’s broader view of time as developed in the first Critique.