Of the Sublime: Presence in Question: Essays by Jean-Francois Courtine, Michel Deguy, Eliane Escoubas, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Francois Lyotard

By Jeffrey S. Librett

Book Overview

Today, the sublime has again become the focus of sustained reconsideration, but now for its epistemological and ontological-or presentational-aspects. As an unmasterable excess of beauty, the sublime marks the limits of representational thinking. These essays will be indispensable reading for anyone whose work is concerned with the sublime or, more generally, with the limits of representation, including philosophers, literary scholars and art historians.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791413802
• ISBN13: 9780791413807
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher