This article explores the restart of the French contemporary aesthetics through Kant's Critique of Judgment and takes the Aesthetic Relation (1997) by Gérard Genette as object of study. In his work, Genette firstly reinterprets the aesthetics of Kant through the theme of aspectual attention and dialogues with English-spoken theorists. Then he brings out a hyper-Kantian subjectivist aesthetic theory. The article observes and evaluates in the end the contribution of Genette through the aspects of the restarting, dialogue, approach and his own implied taste.