The theory of the sublime from Longinus to Kant /

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Author / Creator:	Doran, Robert, 1968- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Sublime, The. Sublime, The -- History. Sublime, The. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588437

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ISBN:	9781316374856 1316374858 9781107101531 1107101530 9781107499157 1107499151 9781316182017 1316182010
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-304) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical experience of being at once overwhelmed and exalted - and a common concern: the preservation of a notion of transcendence in the face of the secularization of modern culture. Combining intellectual history with literary theory and philosophical analysis, his book provides a new, searching and multilayered account of a concept that continues to stimulate thought about our responses to art, nature and human events"--Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Defining the Longinian sublime
Longinus's five sources of sublimity
Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture
Boileau: the birth of a concept
Dennis: terror and religion
Burke: sublime individualism
The Kantian sublime in 1764: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime
The sublime in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
The sublime in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment
Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime
Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime
Sublimity and culture in Kant.

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