James Kirwan

Sublimity (eBook, ePUB)

The Non-Rational and the Rational in the History of Aesthetics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Updating existing treatments of the sublime in the eighteenth century, this book addresses the nature of the sublime experience itself and the functions that experience has played, and continues to play, within aesthetic discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135455750
• Artikelnr.: 40445811

Autorenporträt

James Kirwan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Mountains, Tigers, and Magnanimity: A Passion and Its Objects
Chapter 2 A Pleasing Rape? Boswell versus Johnson in the History of the Sublime
Chapter 3 Proud Creatures: The Fascination of Greatness
Chapter 4 The Claim to a Nobler Motive: Kant
Chapter 5 The Triumph of the Will: Schiller
Chapter 6 The Philosophy of Belief: German Idealism
Chapter 7 Common Senses: Eighteenth-Century Survivals
Chapter 8 The Literature of Power: The Nineteenth Century
Chapter 9 Epiphany and Therapy: The Twentieth Century
Chapter 10 Sublimity