Nature's sublime : an essay in aesthetic naturalism / Robert S. Corrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrington, Robert S., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sublime, The.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]

Summary:

Nature's Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism uses a radical new form of phenomenology to probe into the deepest traits of the human process in its individual, social, religious, and aesthetic dimensions. Starting with the selving process, this text describes the role of signs and symbols in intra- and interpersonal communication. At the heart of the human use of signs is a creative tension between religious symbols and the novel symbols created in the various arts. Robert S. Corrington contrasts natural communities, which flatten out and reject novel forms of semiosis, and communities of interpretation, which welcome creative and enriched signs and symbols. He makes the normative claim that religious sign/symbol systems have a tendency toward tribalism and violence, while the various spheres of the aesthetic are comparatively non-tribal, or even deliberatively anti-tribal. The concept/experience of beauty and the sublime, then, is meant to replace that of religious relation. As Nature's Sublime illustrates, the sublime is not merely an internal mode of attunement, contra Kant, but comes from the very depths of nature in the potencies of nature naturing. The insights of this book will be illuminating to students and scholars of psychology, religion, philosophy (including metaphysics), philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Selving 33

2 Communal Vistas 75

3 God-ing and Involution 113

4 Genius, Art, and the Sublime 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739182130

0739182137

OCLC:

823209402