This is the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, one of the most important concepts in contemporary philosophy. Robert Doran addresses theories from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its early modern reception to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant.
This is the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, one of the most important concepts in contemporary philosophy. Robert Doran addresses theories from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its early modern reception to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant.
Robert Doran is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature (2016) and the editor of three books: Philosophy of History after Hayden White (2013), Hayden White's The Fiction of Narrative (2010), and René Girard's Mimesis and Theory (2008). Professor Doran holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, California and a PhD in General and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Longinus' Theory of Sublimity: 1. Defining the Longinian sublime 2. Longinus' five sources sublimity 3. Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture Part II. Sublimity and Modernity: 4. Boileau: the birth of a concept 5. Dennis: terror and religion 6. Burke: sublime individualism Part III. The Sublimity of the Mind: Kant: 7. The Kantian sublime in 1764: 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime' 8. The sublime in the 'Critique of Practical Reason' 9. The sublime in the 'Critique of the Power of Judgment' 10. Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime 11. Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime 12. Sublimity and culture in Kant.
Introduction Part I. Longinus' Theory of Sublimity: 1. Defining the Longinian sublime 2. Longinus' five sources sublimity 3. Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture Part II. Sublimity and Modernity: 4. Boileau: the birth of a concept 5. Dennis: terror and religion 6. Burke: sublime individualism Part III. The Sublimity of the Mind: Kant: 7. The Kantian sublime in 1764: 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime' 8. The sublime in the 'Critique of Practical Reason' 9. The sublime in the 'Critique of the Power of Judgment' 10. Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime 11. Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime 12. Sublimity and culture in Kant.
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