[PDF] The Sublime In Modern Philosophy eBook

Author : Emily Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107276268

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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 : Emily Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521194148

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A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature.

Author : Lecturer in Philosophy Emily Brady
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
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ISBN : 9781107278240

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An original philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature.

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : 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 : Robert Doran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107101530

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The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.

Author : Hugh J. Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134720300

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Jean-Franois Lyotard, the highly influential twentieth-century philosopher of the postmodern, has had an enormous impact on the course and commitment of contemporary philosophy. Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime is a thoroughgoing reassessment of his extraordinary legacy and contribution to contemporary cultural, political, ethical, and aesthetic theory, and an indispenable guide to key issues in his philosophy. Fifteen distinguished scholars have contributed new, original essays examining the main themes in Lyotard's work with a focus on the special intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and the experience of the sublime in art. The volume includes an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Lyotard, previously unpublished photographs of Lyotard, and an incisive essay by Lyotard himself on the philosophical significance of Freud's case of Emma.

Author : Sophia Vasalou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : 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 : David Weissman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 311032038X

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Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kant’s emphasis on sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine arts. The arts themselves seemed as ample as nature; a disciplined science could devote as much energy to one as the other. But then the arts began to splinter because of new technologies: photography displaced figurative painting; hearing recorded music reduced the interest in learning to play it. The firm interiority that Hegel assumed was undermined by the speed, mechanization, and distractions of modern life. We inherit two problems: restore quality and conviction in the arts; cultivate the interiority—the sensibility—that is a condition for judgment in every domain. What is sensibility’s role in experiences of every sort, but especially those provoked when art is made and enjoyed?

Author : Philip Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134493185

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Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.