Wstęp do estetyki Derridy i Lyotarda

There have been outlined serious discrepancies between philosophies of Derrida and Lyotard on the grounds of deliberations concerning art. Lyotard questions the notion of beauty, demanding a replacement of it with a notion of the sublime, thanks to which artistic creation could also get rid of its constraints. Lyotard argues that beauty is possible thanks to the mimesis of nature, but the mimesis requires observance of the rules. Rejecting the idea of beauty, as a supreme value in art, we reject the necessity of subordinating art to rules, or, in Lyotard’s words, we sacrifice it for the freedom of practical reason.