The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla 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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Page xi
... senses of the self, society, science (in the sense of knowledge) are both derived from and dependent on models created during the eighteenth century: we are, to all intents and purposes, children of the enlightenment. More specifically ...
... senses of the self, society, science (in the sense of knowledge) are both derived from and dependent on models created during the eighteenth century: we are, to all intents and purposes, children of the enlightenment. More specifically ...
Page xii
... sense, which is not to say that it had no views upon or theories about artworks. But what the period said and thought about artworks is bound up with what it thought and said about the nature of human experience generally. In this sense ...
... sense, which is not to say that it had no views upon or theories about artworks. But what the period said and thought about artworks is bound up with what it thought and said about the nature of human experience generally. In this sense ...
Page xiii
... sense of a general trajectory during the period towards concepts of autonomous subjectivity. However, in reading the British tradition exclusively in terms of a preparation for the Kantian description of the subject much is left out or ...
... sense of a general trajectory during the period towards concepts of autonomous subjectivity. However, in reading the British tradition exclusively in terms of a preparation for the Kantian description of the subject much is left out or ...
Page xiv
... sense into the aesthetic realm so that the grounds of our distinguishing between gpod and bad artworks are identical to our grounds for making ethical judgments. This is the first move. The second, and crucial, follow-up insists that ...
... sense into the aesthetic realm so that the grounds of our distinguishing between gpod and bad artworks are identical to our grounds for making ethical judgments. This is the first move. The second, and crucial, follow-up insists that ...
Page xv
... sense the discourse on the sublime attains the status of a technology and its appearance is coincident with a number of other discourses which similarly articulate technologies of explanation and understanding—such as economics ...
... sense the discourse on the sublime attains the status of a technology and its appearance is coincident with a number of other discourses which similarly articulate technologies of explanation and understanding—such as economics ...
Contents
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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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