The Negative Sublime - McCormick, Peter
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Does the distinctive character of this past century's tragic endings and this present century's ominous
beginnings raise fresh questions about what is the central subject matter for ethics?
Making use of detailed case studies from the twentieth century's distinctive experiences of warfare and its
various echoes in the twentieth century's poetry, this philosophical study shows that these profoundly unsettling
matters freshly challenge ethics today to rethink its central subject. Again, as in the companion volume, When
Famine Returns: Ethics, Identity, and the Deep Pathos of…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Does the distinctive character of this past century's tragic endings and this present century's ominous
beginnings raise fresh questions about what is the central subject matter for ethics?
Making use of detailed case studies from the twentieth century's distinctive experiences of warfare and its
various echoes in the twentieth century's poetry, this philosophical study shows that these profoundly unsettling
matters freshly challenge ethics today to rethink its central subject. Again, as in the companion volume, When
Famine Returns: Ethics, Identity, and the Deep Pathos of Things, the author uses the tentative and indirect
resources of the short, classical essay rather than the form of the substantial impersonal monograph.
Peter McCormick argues that a cardinal concern for any philosophical ethics today must be the negative sublime,
the reflective and responsive consciousness of both the inexorable necessity for and yet the strict incapacity of
philosophical understanding alone to articulate rightly the overwhelming magnitudes of human suffering and
moral evil.
Autorenporträt
Peter McCormick (1940) is, since 1999, Prince Franz-Josef II and
Princess Gina Professor of Philosophy at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of
Liechtenstein. A former Humboldt Scholar in Germany, American Fulbright Scholar in Paris, Canadian Killam
Scholar, and Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, he holds a Doctorat d'Etat from the
University of Pars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Bisherige Forschungsschwerpunkte des Autors:
- Modernitiy, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art
- Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics
- Heidegger and the Language of the World