The sublime in modern philosophy : aesthetics, ethics, and nature / Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Emily, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sublime, The.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The eighteenth-century sublime

The Kantian sublime I : Pre-critical and critical work

The Kantian sublime II : Nature and Morality

The Romantic sublime

Art and the Sublime

Tragedy and the sublime

The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness

The environmental sublime.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88779-3

1-107-27217-3

1-107-27166-5

0-521-12291-0

1-139-01809-4

1-107-27498-2

1-107-27824-4

1-107-27375-7

1-107-27701-9

OCLC:

854975197