The Sublime and Its Teleology

by Loose, Donald

• ISBN13: 9789004218192
• ISBN10: 900421819X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

What are we talking about when we qualify something as sublime? Is it just a qualification of the beautiful in its most touching degree? Is it a qualification of something ouside there anyway? Is it a feeling or a reflecting judgment on aesthetic appreciation? And can we reduce the sublime to the aesthetic? The authors of this book all take the analysis of Kant in Critique of the Power of Judgment" as their primary reference. The argument of this book however is to show in what way the Kantian legacy on this topic is still a main stream of inspiration for contemporary thinking, whether in line with Kant or overcoming his primary impetus for modern philosophy of freedom in a critical reception."

Author Biography

Donald A.A. Loose, Ph.D. (1989), studied Theology, Religious Studies and Philosophy at K.U. Leuven, is associate professor for Philosophy at Tilburg University and Thomas More professor at Easmus University. He published extensively on fundamental ethics and political philosophy.

Table of Contents

Volume Foreword	p. vii
Introduction: The Kantian Sublime and Its Aftermath	p. 1
The Genuine Sublime: Kant on the Sublimity of Moral Consciousness	p. 13
Kant's Aesthetics of Morals	p. 43
The Dynamic Sublime as the Pivoting Point between Nature and Freedom in Kant	p. 53
Sublimity, Freedom, and Necessity in the Philosophy of Kant	p. 79
Teleology in Kant's Philosophy of Culture and History: A Problem for the Architectonic of Reason	p. 115
The Lord and the Sublime: Free Life's Transcendence of Finitude	p. 133
The Sublime Monster	p. 159
The Tragical Sublime	p. 169
The Sublime and the Limits of Metaphysics	p. 187
Melville's 'Sublime Uneventfulness'. Toward a Phenomenology of the Sublime	p. 205
Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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