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Sublimity
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 nineteenth century aesthetics, and analyzes the significance of the modifications the concept has undergone in order to serve the interests of contemporary aesthetics. The book thus offers the most comprehensive coverage of the history of the sublime available.
- GenresPhilosophy
222 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2005
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September 17, 2014
An excellent survey of sublimity. It challenged me immensely... in an uncomfortable - sublime, even? - way. At the end he decides not to think of the sublime as a kind of Freudian symptom and, thus, "subsume the aesthetic" under psychoanalysis. I wish he would have subsumed...he might have cleared some things up for me.
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