Vindication of Taste: Subject, aesthetic experience and literary reception

Abstract

Life in the text and the text in life: here we would place an "ethos of reading". To sustain this, the categories of "subject" and "object" are rethought; the process of ethic liberation of sensibility and pleasure encouraged by Kant are described; the independence of taste with respect to knowledge and moral is addressed, congruent with the conception of art without mimesis; the autonomy of the work is examined and the theories of literary reception are questioned, in favor of reading as an experience of intensity.