| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. The historical sublime. The eighteenth-century sublime ; The Kantian sublime I : Pre-critical and critical work ; The Kantian sublime II : Nature and morality ; The Romantic sublime -- Part II. The contemporary sublime. Art and the Sublime ; Tragedy and the sublime ; The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness ; The environmental sublime. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sublime, The.
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Sublime, The. |
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brady, Emily. Sublime in modern philosophy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9780521194143 (DLC) 2012043750 (OCoLC)813392297 |
| ISBN |
9781461936558 (electronic book) |
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1461936551 (electronic book) |
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9781139018098 (electronic book) |
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1139018094 (electronic book) |
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9780521194143 |
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0521194148 |
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