Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of
philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In
this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the
nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in
contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art.
Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and
the 'other' in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby
articulates a radical 'female sublime'. A central feature of The
Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is its engagement with recent
debates around '9/11', race and Islam. Battersby shows how, since
the eighteenth century, the pleasures of the sublime have been
described in terms of the transcendence of terror. Linked to the
'feminine', the sublime was closed off to flesh-and-blood women, to
'Orientals' and to other supposedly 'inferior' human types.
Engaging with Kant, Burke, the German Romantics, Nietzsche,
Derrida, Lyotard, Irigarayand Arendt, as well as with women writers
and artists, Battersby traces the history of these exclusions,
while finding resources within the history of western culture for
thinking human differences afresh
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is essential reading
for students of continental philosophy, gender studies, aesthetics,
literary theory, visual culture, and race and social theory.
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