The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla Cambridge University Press, 15.08.1996 This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions. |
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... discourses which singly both complement and compete with each other, and collectively amount to a re-drawing of the map upon which we chart our senses of self. It is during this period that the change adverted to above, from a ...
... discourses which singly both complement and compete with each other, and collectively amount to a re-drawing of the map upon which we chart our senses of self. It is during this period that the change adverted to above, from a ...
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... discourses, the British tradition insists that the affective is based in human experience and human nature, and that by ... discourse. On account of this, the sublime infiltrates other forms of enquiry and works its way into discussions ...
... discourses, the British tradition insists that the affective is based in human experience and human nature, and that by ... discourse. On account of this, the sublime infiltrates other forms of enquiry and works its way into discussions ...
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... discourse on the sublime. For this analytic discourse is not merely concerned with ascertaining the precise location of affects — it is also productive of them. In this sense the discourse on the sublime attains the status of a ...
... discourse on the sublime. For this analytic discourse is not merely concerned with ascertaining the precise location of affects — it is also productive of them. In this sense the discourse on the sublime attains the status of a ...
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... discourses determine, legislate and police specific forms of knowledge, that we mean to highlight in the development of the discourse on the sublime. The aim of the extracts following is to point out the ways in which the eighteenth ...
... discourses determine, legislate and police specific forms of knowledge, that we mean to highlight in the development of the discourse on the sublime. The aim of the extracts following is to point out the ways in which the eighteenth ...
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... discourse of political economy. Such a transformation can be understood as a direct response to the difficulty of reconciling the sublime excess of aesthetic motivations of conduct with the civic duties that permeate political economy ...
... discourse of political economy. Such a transformation can be understood as a direct response to the difficulty of reconciling the sublime excess of aesthetic motivations of conduct with the civic duties that permeate political economy ...
Inhalt
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Rhapsody to rhetoric | ii |
Irish Perspectives | 127 |
The Aberdonian Enlightenment | 157 |
Edinburgh and Glasgow | 195 |
From the Picturesque to the Political | 263 |
Sources and further reading | 307 |
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