The Sublime Terror And Human Difference

Author : Christine Battersby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134753799
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference written by Christine Battersby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the ‘other’ in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical ‘female sublime’. A central feature of The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is its engagement with recent debates around ‘9/11’, race and Islam. Battersby shows how, since the eighteenth century, the pleasures of the sublime have been described in terms of the transcendence of terror. Linked to the ‘feminine’, the sublime was closed off to flesh-and-blood women, to ‘Orientals’ and to other supposedly ‘inferior’ human types. Engaging with Kant, Burke, the German Romantics, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray and Arendt, as well as with women writers and artists, Battersby traces the history of these exclusions, while finding resources within the history of western culture for thinking human differences afresh The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is essential reading for students of continental philosophy, gender studies, aesthetics, literary theory, visual culture, and race and social theory.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tilottama Rajan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031273451
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism written by Tilottama Rajan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou. Key features: Provides in-depth reflections on the various conversations between German Idealism and theory, including an expanded canon of Idealist philosophers and a wide range of contemporary anti-foundationalist thinkers. Includes marginalized voices and concepts that reflect both contemporary concerns as well as the sheer abundance of readings of German Idealism undertaken by European theorists over the last fifty years. Expands the existing scholarship by focusing on new, future directions emerging out of the idealism-theory relationship. The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism is essential reading for researchers and students of all levels — from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates — working on the legacy of German Idealist philosophers within philosophy departments, as well as all those interested in theory from across the humanities.

Author : Peter L. Doebler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538542
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the Sublime Sustainable? A Comparative Aesthetics Approach to the Sublime written by Peter L. Doebler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Sublime Sustainable? introduces the key points of debate around the sublime while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach. In it, you will discover how thinking on the sublime emerged historically and then engage with the recent critical scholarship on the topic, including from the fields of theology, philosophy, and literature. The critiques of the sublime are then expanded in dialogue with perspectives from Japanese aesthetics and art, shaping the argument that what is needed today is a sublime that enriches human lives by cultivating profound, participative relationships.

Author : Emily Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194148
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime in Modern Philosophy written by Emily Brady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature.

Author : Pedro Querido
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900439799X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Fear, Horror, and Terror: Giving Utterance to the Unutterable written by Pedro Querido and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays whose diversity of insights and methodologies facilitates a kaleidoscopic look at a universally-recognizable cluster of phenomena and experiences of fear, anxiety, horror, and terror that often defy straightforward categorization or even description.

Author : Gillian B. Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845159
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime Today written by Gillian B. Pierce and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime from Longinus, Boileau, Burke, Kant, and Hegel to current literary and cultural contexts. Today, aesthetic experience itself seems to be changing, given the rise of new media and new conditions for the viewing and the reception of works of art. How might the rhetoric of the sublime be used to both describe our current situation and help formulate constructive responses to it? The Sublime Today collects the work of scholars in literature, film, art, and media studies and provides a forum for investigating the contemporary relevance of the sublime, both as it has been understood historically and as it has been formulated by more recent theorists such as Jameson, Lyotard, Kristeva, and others. The volume includes essays on literary readings of the sublime in Coetze, Eggers, Lahiri, and Auster; essays on film and the visual arts in the work of François Ozon and in recent participatory art; and essays on how new technologies and media, as in media representations of 9/11, re-frame our relationship to the aesthetics of the sublime, especially as they intersect with questions of gender, the postcolonial, and the uneasy politics of terror.

Author : Jane Forsey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527510301
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of the Sublime written by Jane Forsey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the sublime, used to describe a particular kind of overwhelming or exhilarating aesthetic experience, has garnered a great deal of attention by philosophers, critical theorists and literary scholars. In the midst of this growing body of literature, Professor Jane Forsey published an article asking whether an aesthetic theory of the sublime is even possible, and argued provocatively in the negative. Claiming that efforts to explain the sublime inevitably result in theories that are either contradictory or incoherent, Forsey posed a challenge to anyone who takes the sublime seriously as an aesthetic category. This volume brings together an international slate of philosophers and scholars of the sublime, who have been invited to respond to, and critically engage with, Forsey’s article. Unlike other monographs and anthologies that deal broadly with the sublime in aesthetics, this collection examines specific conceptual problems with the very foundations of sublime theory in a manner that is tightly focused and rigorous. It represents a variety of approaches that defend the sublime, and concludes with an original response by Professor Forsey to her critics.

Author : Robert R. Clewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350030171
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime Reader written by Robert R. Clewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index – making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime.

Author : Stephen John Wright
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451465599
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dogmatic Aesthetics written by Stephen John Wright and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest desires, it must be reined in by dogmatics. This book employs the thought of Robert W Jenson to construct a dogmatic aesthetics.