The Sublime in Modern Philosophy

By Emily Brady

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521122910
• ISBN13: 9780521122917
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"