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Sublimity : the non-rational and the irrational in the history of aesthetics /

Sublimity addresses the nature of the sublime experience itself, and the function that experience has played, and continues to play, within aesthetic discourse. The book both updates and revises existing treatments of the sublime in the eighteenth century, examines its neglected role in the nineteen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirwan, James, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Mountains, tigers, and magnanimity : a passion and its objects
  • A pleasing rape? : Boswell versus Johnson in the history of the sublime
  • Proud creatures : the fascination of greatness
  • The claim to a nobler motive : Kant
  • The triumph of the will : Schiller
  • The philosophy of belief : German idealism
  • Common senses : eighteenth-century survivals
  • The literature of power : the nineteenth century
  • Epiphany and therapy : the twentieth century
  • Sublimity.