Emily Brady

Sublime in Modern Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107272170
• Artikelnr.: 52976031

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.