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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... present collection is to de-couple the British eighteenth-century tradition of the sublime from the Kantian analytic ... presents a set of difficulties which must 1 Recent work on the Kantian text has taken precisely this line of enquiry ...
... present collection is to de-couple the British eighteenth-century tradition of the sublime from the Kantian analytic ... presents a set of difficulties which must 1 Recent work on the Kantian text has taken precisely this line of enquiry ...
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... present to the British debate but do not operate so clearly as transformative tropes. This is because these concepts are far more fully amenable to transcendental description: genius, in its conceptual core is hostile to the notion of ...
... present to the British debate but do not operate so clearly as transformative tropes. This is because these concepts are far more fully amenable to transcendental description: genius, in its conceptual core is hostile to the notion of ...
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... present, the moment at which the description and analysis is made. There is a 'natural' progress to society as much as to the argument being pursued: both end up at the point of full knowledge, of plenitude where the sublime rush of ...
... present, the moment at which the description and analysis is made. There is a 'natural' progress to society as much as to the argument being pursued: both end up at the point of full knowledge, of plenitude where the sublime rush of ...
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... present here developed three distinct forms of address to this relation. The first was an exclusive focus on the experiential, although the confusions between cause and affect are if anything intensified here. This approach understands ...
... present here developed three distinct forms of address to this relation. The first was an exclusive focus on the experiential, although the confusions between cause and affect are if anything intensified here. This approach understands ...
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... presents texts written within the context of mid-century Ireland. Here we encounter Burke for the first time and this ... present anthology than the differences between the thriving intellectual milieu of Scotland generally and the ...
... presents texts written within the context of mid-century Ireland. Here we encounter Burke for the first time and this ... present anthology than the differences between the thriving intellectual milieu of Scotland generally and the ...
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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