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• Introduction-- Part I. Longinus' Theory of Sublimity:
• 1. Defining the Longinian sublime--
• 2. Longinus' five sources sublimity--
• 3. Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture-- Part II. Sublimity and Modernity:
• 4. Boileau: the birth of a concept--
• 5. Dennis: terror and religion--
• 6. Burke: sublime individualism-- Part III. The Sublimity of the Mind: Kant:
• 7. The Kantian sublime in
• 1764: 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime'--
• 8. The sublime in the 'Critique of Practical Reason'--
• 9. The sublime in the 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'--
• 10. Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime--
• 11. Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime--
• 12. Sublimity and culture in Kant.
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In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical experience of being at once overwhelmed and exalted - and a common concern: the preservation of a notion of transcendence in the face of the secularization of modern culture. Combining intellectual history with literary theory and philosophical analysis, his book provides a new, searching and multilayered account of a concept that continues to stimulate thought about our responses to art, nature and human events.
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• 'The sublime'. A short introduction to a long history / Timothy M. Costelloe
• Part I. Philosophical History of the Sublime: 1. Longinus and the ancient sublime / Malcolm Heath; 2. ...And the beautiful? revisiting Edmund Burke's 'double aesthetics' / Rodolphe Gasché; 3. The moral source of the Kantian sublime / Melissa McBay Meritt; 4. Imagination and internal sense: the sublime in Shaftesbury, Reid, Addison, and Reynolds / Timothy M. Costelloe; 5. The associative sublime: Gerrard, Kames, Alison, and Stewart / Rachel Zuckert; 6. The 'prehistory' of the sublime in early modern France: an interdisciplinary perspective / Éva Madeleine Martin; 7. The German sublime after Kant / Paul Guyer; 8. The postmodern sublime: presentation and its limits / David B. Johnson
• Part II. Disciplinary and Other Perspectives: 9. The 'subtler sublime': in modern Dutch aesthetics / John R.J. Eyck; 10. The first American sublime / Chandos Michael Brown; 11. The environmental sublime / Emily Brady; 12. Religion and the sublime / Andrew Chignell and Matthew C. Halteman; 13. The British romantic sublime / Adam Potkay; 14. The sublime and the fine arts / Theodore Gracyk; 15. Architecture and the sublime / Richard A. Etlin.

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 America, the environment, religion, British Romanticism, the fine arts and architecture. Each chapter is both accessible for non-specialists and offers an original contribution to its respective field of inquiry.
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• Introduction--
• 1. The longinian tradition--
• 2. Rhapsody to rhetoric--
• 3. Irish perspectives--
• 4. The Aberdonian Enlightenment--
• 5. Glasgow and Edinburgh--
• 6. From the picturesque to the political-- Commentary notes-- Sources and further reading.
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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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• Discours au roy
• Satires 1-10
• Epistres 1-9
• Le Lutrin
• L'art poëtique
• Ode sur la prise de Namur
• Epigrammes et inscriptions
• Discours sur la satire
• Lettre a Monseigneur le duc de Vivone
• Remercîment a Messieurs de l'Academie françoise
• Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours / traduit du grec de Longin
• Remarques
• Remarques sur Longin
• Reflexions critiques sur Longin
• Parodie de quelques endroits du Cid, sur Chapelain, Cassaigne, et La Serre
• Ode in expugnationem Namurcæ.

This Element considers Kant's account of the sublime in the context of his predecessors both in the Anglophone and German rationalist traditions. Since Kant says with evident endorsement that 'we call sublime that which is absolutely great' (Critique of the Power of Judgment, 5:248) and nothing in nature can in fact be absolutely great (it can only figure as such, in certain presentations), Kant concludes that strictly speaking what is sublime can only be the human calling (Bestimmung) to perfect our rational capacity according to the standard of virtue that is thought through the moral law. The Element takes account of the difference between respect and admiration as the two main varieties of sublime feeling, and concludes by considering the role of Stoicism in Kant's account of the sublime, particularly through the channel of Seneca.
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