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Author | : Jane Forsey |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2018-04-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1527510301 |
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The notion of the sublime, used to describe a particular kind of overwhelming or exhilarating aesthetic experience, has garnered a great deal of attention by philosophers, critical theorists and literary scholars. In the midst of this growing body of literature, Professor Jane Forsey published an article asking whether an aesthetic theory of the sublime is even possible, and argued provocatively in the negative. Claiming that efforts to explain the sublime inevitably result in theories that are either contradictory or incoherent, Forsey posed a challenge to anyone who takes the sublime seriously as an aesthetic category. This volume brings together an international slate of philosophers and scholars of the sublime, who have been invited to respond to, and critically engage with, Forsey’s article. Unlike other monographs and anthologies that deal broadly with the sublime in aesthetics, this collection examines specific conceptual problems with the very foundations of sublime theory in a manner that is tightly focused and rigorous. It represents a variety of approaches that defend the sublime, and concludes with an original response by Professor Forsey to her critics.
Author | : Robert Doran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107101530 |
Download The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.
Author | : Edmund Burke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |
Download A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Timothy M. Costelloe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2012-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521143675 |
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This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.
Author | : Emily Brady |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107276268 |
Download The Sublime in Modern Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.
Author | : Bart Vandenabeele |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137358696 |
Download The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately to rework Schopenhauer's theory into a viable form so as to establish the sublime as a distinctive aesthetic category with a broader existential and metaphysical significance.
Author | : Sophia Vasalou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107244811 |
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With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to the visionary power of Schopenhauer's work. The aim of this book is to place the aesthetic character of Schopenhauer's standpoint at the heart of the way we read his philosophy and the way we answer the question: why read Schopenhauer - and how? Approaching his philosophy as an enactment of the sublime with a longer history in the ancient philosophical tradition, Vasalou provides a fresh way of assessing Schopenhauer's relevance in critical terms. This book will be valuable for students and scholars with an interest in post-Kantian philosophy and ancient ethics.
Author | : Vincent Mosco |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2005-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262250217 |
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Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world. The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments before it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore the myths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled to believe in them. He tells us that what kept enthusiastic investors in the dotcom era bidding up stocks even after the crash had begun was not willful ignorance of the laws of economics but belief in the myth that cyberspace was opening up a new world. Myths are not just falsehoods that can be disproved, Mosco points out, but stories that lift us out of the banality of everyday life into the possibility of the sublime. He argues that if we take what we know about cyberspace and situate it within what we know about culture—specifically the central post-Cold War myths of the end of history, geography, and politics—we will add to our knowledge about the digital world; we need to see it "with both eyes"—that is, to understand it both culturally and materially.After examining the myths of cyberspace and going back in history to look at the similar mythic pronouncements prompted by past technological advances—the telephone, the radio, and television, among others—Mosco takes us to Ground Zero. In the final chapter he considers the twin towers of the World Trade Center—our icons of communication, information, and trade—and their part in the politics, economics, and myths of cyberspace.
Author | : Jean-François Courtine |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791413791 |
Download Of the Sublime: Presence in Question Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Today, the sublime has again become the focus of sustained reconsideration, but now for its epistemological and ontological--or presentational--aspects. As an unmasterable excess of beauty, the sublime marks the limits of representational thinking. These essays will be indispensable reading for anyone whose work is concerned with the sublime or, more generally, with the limits of representation, including philosophers, literary scholars and art historians.
Author | : Kurt Fawver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Therefore, as a new theory of the sublime aesthetic, this dissertation is, at very least, a novel formulation of an ancient and undervalued concept in art and critical theory and, at best, a work that unearths the deepest, heretofore unrecognized, layers of an aesthetic experience central to human perception.