The sublime : from antiquity to the present /
This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on "the sublime," the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapter...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 'The sublime'. A short introduction to a long history / Timothy M. Costelloe
- Part I. Philosophical History of the Sublime: 1. Longinus and the ancient sublime / Malcolm Heath; 2. ...And the beautiful? revisiting Edmund Burke's 'double aesthetics' / Rodolphe Gasché; 3. The moral source of the Kantian sublime / Melissa McBay Meritt; 4. Imagination and internal sense: the sublime in Shaftesbury, Reid, Addison, and Reynolds / Timothy M. Costelloe; 5. The associative sublime: Gerrard, Kames, Alison, and Stewart / Rachel Zuckert; 6. The 'prehistory' of the sublime in early modern France: an interdisciplinary perspective / Éva Madeleine Martin; 7. The German sublime after Kant / Paul Guyer; 8. The postmodern sublime: presentation and its limits / David B. Johnson
- Part II. Disciplinary and Other Perspectives: 9. The 'subtler sublime': in modern Dutch aesthetics / John R.J. Eyck; 10. The first American sublime / Chandos Michael Brown; 11. The environmental sublime / Emily Brady; 12. Religion and the sublime / Andrew Chignell and Matthew C. Halteman; 13. The British romantic sublime / Adam Potkay; 14. The sublime and the fine arts / Theodore Gracyk; 15. Architecture and the sublime / Richard A. Etlin.