This paper aims at throwing some light on the Eighteenth-Century aesthetics. After examining two classical interpretations - Cassirer e Sartre's - concerning this subject, I argue that both authors share a common analytical pressupposition. My main purpose is to show that without taking account of the the relationship between author and public, we cannot understand some essential characteristics of the literature in the Enlightenment.
Cassirer; Sartre; Enlightenment; Public; Author