The Sublime in Modern Philosophy Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature |
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| Author:
| Brady, Emily |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-19414-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $106.00 |
Book Description:
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A systematic, accessible and original philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity in the eighteenth century to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature. The book's main aims are to reassess historical notions of the sublime to develop a new theory and to assert the value of the concept for contemporary debates in aesthetics and environmental thought.
A systematic, accessible and original philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity in the eighteenth century to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature. The book's main aims are to reassess historical notions of the sublime to develop a new theory and to assert the value of the concept for contemporary debates in aesthetics and environmental thought.