The Sublime in Modern Philosophy Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature |
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| Author:
| Brady, Emily |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-12291-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2018 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $31.99 |
Book Description:
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The Sublime in Modern Philosophy provides 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. The book focuses more on the...
More DescriptionThe Sublime in Modern Philosophy provides 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. The book focuses more on the Anglo-American tradition of philosophy, in which the sublime has largely been ignored.