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

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Brady, Emily
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The historical sublime. The eighteenth-century sublime ; The Kantian sublime I : Pre-critical and critical work ; The Kantian sublime II : Nature and morality ; The Romantic sublime
  • Part II. The contemporary sublime. Art and the Sublime ; Tragedy and the sublime ; The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness ; The environmental sublime.