An aesthetic digression

The city and art in Eugenio Trías

Abstract

The article talks about Eugenio Trías’s concept of ‘limit’, the necessity of the importance of the categories as classificatory items of a normative aesthetic of what is real in the way where it permits a critical debate about the developing of the general arts and the “socio-cultural relativism”. It emphasizes the importance of Eugenio Trías considerations about the Kant’s meditations of sublime; in a way where the Spanish philosopher thinks that Kant began with an important turn in aesthetics that allows its developing and it arrives until our present with romantic expectation with out leaving behind the categorical space that allows the new normative aesthetic planning, useful in the comprehension of the different phenomenon even thought they were natural or from a particular culture.