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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...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 aesthetic and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, the sublime, Brady argues, is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world."--Book Jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
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9780521194143 (hardback) : 0521194148 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | BH301 |
| CLC: | B83 |
| Call Number: | B83/B812 |
| Contents: | The eighteenth-century sublime -- The Kantian sublime I : Pre-critical and critical work -- The Kantian sublime II : Nature and Morality -- The Romantic sublime -- Art and the Sublime -- Tragedy and the sublime -- The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness -- The environmental sublime. |