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The Sublime in modern philosophy : aesthetics, ethics, and nature /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brady, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; The Sublime in Modern Philosophy; Dedication; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I THE HISTORICAL SUBLIME; 1 The Eighteenth-Century Sublime; Sublime Style: Longinus and Dennis; The Sublime, Aesthetic Qualities, and Objects; Addison; Baillie and Gerard; Burke; Kames and Alison; Sublimity in Mathematical Ideas, Religious Ideas, and Moral Character; Mathematical Sublime; Religious Ideas; The Sublime in Moral Character; Sublime Emotions; Sublime Imagination; 2 The Kantian Sublime I; Mendelssohn's Sublime; Kant's Pre-Critical Sublime.
  • Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the SublimeAnthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View; Kant's Critical Sublime; The Beautiful and the Sublime; The Mathematically and Dynamically Sublime; The Objects of the Sublime; 3 The Kantian Sublime II; The Sublime as Self-Regarding; The Sublime and Aesthetic Appreciation; Natural Objects as Sublime; The Autonomy of the Aesthetic; Sublime Appreciation, Self, and Nature; 4 The Romantic Sublime; The Sublime after Kant: Schiller and Schopenhauer; Schiller; Schopenhauer; The Romantic Sublime; The North American Wilderness Aesthetic.
  • From Historical Concept to Contemporary ProblemPART II THE CONTEMPORARY SUBLIME; 5 Art and the Sublime; Against Artistic Sublimity; Scale; Formlessness; Wildness and Disorder; The Sublime Response: Emotions and Imagination; Sublime Metaphysics and Art; Sublimity, Architecture, and Land Art; 6 Tragedy and the Sublime; The Paradox of Tragedy; The Paradox of the Sublime; A Joint Resolution?; 7 The Sublime, Terrible Beauty, and Ugliness; Positioning the Sublime; Terrible Beauty; Ugliness; Negative Aesthetics and Meaningful Relations; 8 The Environmental Sublime; The Historical Argument.
  • The Metaphysical ArgumentThe Anthropocentric Argument; The Humbling Sublime; Nature, Self, and Relationship; The Sublime and Environmental Ethics; Bibliography; Index.