Force is the attempt of reading modern aesthetics as a theory of ¿force.¿ It does so by showing that modern philosophy begins twice in aesthetics ¿ in two different, even opposite forms: as an aesthetic of the subject and its ¿faculties¿ and as an experience and theory of force, which conceives the aesthetic as a play of imagination. Force defines the aesthetic nature of the human, as distinct from the culture of socially acquired practices. ¿Force¿ is the concept of a difference ¿ the difference between nature and culture, humanity and subjectivity, play and practice ¿ that makes freedom possible. ¿The last word of aesthetics is human freedom.¿