i don't know that Deleuze loves Kant's sublime, he probably thinks of it
in terms of what he calls 'intensity,' specifically relative to
aesthetics 'intensive affects.'
Deleuze admires Kant's third critiqu because he thinks the previous two
'dogmatic' critiques becomes unraveled there.
In the first chapter of WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?, D&G are discussing their
old age and what happens to artists, science, and philosophers when they
know they are nearing death. Here they mention Kant's CRITIQUE OF
JUDGEMENT and its greatness as a philosophical work and a work of
old age.
>Cinema too sometimes offers us its gifts of the third age ['third is
>important here because it is the third synthesis of Time that constitutes
>the empty form of Time, which Deleuze believes Kant realizes] as when
>Iven's, for example, blends his laughtr with the witch's laughter in the
>howling wind. Likewise in philosophy, Kant's CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT IS an
>unrestrained work of old age, which his successors have still not caught
>up with: all the mind's facuties overcome their limits, the very limits
>that Kant had so carefully laid down in the works of his prime.
> WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?, p. 2
chris
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