The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521194148
• ISBN13: 9780521194143
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"