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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: aesthetics

• Full title: Sublime in Modern Philosophy
• Author: Emily Brady
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780521194143
• ISBN: 0521194148
• ID: 01329940
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 153 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. August 2013

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