JUDGMENT OF TASTE AND ART CRITICISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF REFLECTION AND AUTONOMY

This article intends to analyze the autonomy in Kant's judgment of taste in order to understand how such judgment could be used as a basis for the criticism of art. We will show that judging autonomously, the subject is indeed tasting itself, as well as the critic who pursuits expressing a genuine reflection over the work of art. We can understand that both are seeking, not only the balance between the strength to assert and the possibility to sustain itself facing opposite judgments, but also the fair measure between taste and subjectivism.