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The sublime, terror and human difference / Christine Battersby.
Van Pelt Library BH301.S7 B298 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Battersby, Christine, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sublime, The.
- Feminist theory.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Terrorism--Philosophy.
- Terrorism.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 A terrible prospect 1
- 2 Terror, terrorism and the sublime 21
- 3 Kant and the unfair sex 45
- 4 Kant's Orientalism: Islam, 'race' and ethnicity 68
- 5 Egypt, parerga and a question of veils 85
- 6 Ourself behind ourself, concealed 105
- 7 Antinomies of the female 135
- 8 Nietzsche and the genealogy of the sublime 157
- 9 Nietzsche's naked goddess: reconfiguring the sublime 177
- 10 Terror now and then 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415148108
- 0415148103
- 0415148111
- 9780203945612
- 0203945611
- 9780415148115
- OCLC:
- 85689805
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