Emily Brady

The Sublime in Modern Philosophy

Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780521194143
• ISBN-10: 0521194148
• Artikelnr.: 37632065

Autorenporträt

Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. She works in the areas of aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, environmental humanities, and animal studies. She has published widely in aesthetics and environmental philosophy, and her most recent book is The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Historical Sublime: 1. The eighteenth-century sublime
2. The Kantian sublime I: pre-critical and critical work
3. The Kantian sublime II: nature and morality
4. The Romantic sublime
Part II. The Contemporary Sublime: 5. Art and the sublime
6. Tragedy and the sublime
7. The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness
8. The environmental sublime.