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The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present
Timothy Costelloe
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paperback. This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'. Editor(s): Costelloe, Timothy M. Num Pages: 313 pages, 36 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 253 x 14. Weight in Grams: 648. From Antiquity to the Present. 313 pages, 36 b/w illus. Editor(s): Costelloe, Timothy M. This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HPN. Dimension: 179 x 253 x 14. Weight: 648.
This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Part One examines philosophical approaches advanced historically to account for the phenomenon, beginning with Longinus, moving through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers in Britain, France and Germany and concluding with developments in contemporary continental philosophy. Part Two explores the sublime with respect to particular disciplines and areas of study, including Dutch literature, early modern ... Read more
This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Part One examines philosophical approaches advanced historically to account for the phenomenon, beginning with Longinus, moving through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers in Britain, France and Germany and concluding with developments in contemporary continental philosophy. Part Two explores the sublime with respect to particular disciplines and areas of study, including Dutch literature, early modern ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
313
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
313
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521143677
SKU
V9780521143677
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About Timothy Costelloe
Timothy M. Costelloe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (2008) and The British Aesthetic Tradition (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Reviews for The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present
'The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present is a grid of essays on the theory of the sublime and on its realization in nature and art. One informs the other, and I don't know of another book on the subject as systematic and wide-ranging.' Ronald Paulson, The Johns Hopkins University 'The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present collects together an ... Read more