The Sublime Now (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

The Sublime has been considered an archaic concept the relevance of which was limited to eighteenth-century discourses on art, literary criticism and aesthetics. But it is becoming obvious that contemporary culture requires of us a response that is at once emotional, critical, powerful and meaningful, and recently the issue of the sublime has found its way back onto the critical agenda. This book asks a series of critical questions about this resurgence: What is the legacy of the discourse of the sublime for us today? In what ways has it acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? To what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history? How does the Sublime follow the Post Modern? To what uses can and should it be put? Why the Sublime now? The editors have collected writings from many contemporary thinkers who bring the critical concept of the sublime into their discussions of contemporary cultures. Spanning philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, literature, avant-garde art, popular cinema, comic books, humour and digital cultures these essays consider the relevance of the sublime now. The authors make provocative readings of the original writings on the sublime, from Longinus, Burke, Kant and Nietzsche, to Freud, Lyotard, Derrida, Kristeva and others whilst bringing these writings to bear on today's cultural issues.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	October 2009
Editors:	Luke White • Claire Pajaczkowska
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	320
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-1302-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-4438-1302-8
Barcode:	9781443813020

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