The Sublime in Modern Philosoph - Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature

Informationen zum Autor Emily Brady is Reader in Aesthetics at the Institute of Geography and Environment, and an Academic Associate in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include environmental aesthetics (nature, art, cultural landscapes and everyday life), environmental ethics, Kant and eighteenth-century philosophy. Brady is author of Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (2003) and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley (2001), Humans in the Land: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape (2008) and Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice (with Pauline Phemister, 2012). Brady has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and is a past president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. She has been an associate editor of Environmental Values and a co-editor of Society and Space and has also served as secretary, treasurer and executive committee member of the British Society of Aesthetics. Klappentext A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature. Zusammenfassung A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Historical Sublime: 1. The eighteenth-century sublime; 2. The Kantian sublime I: pre-critical and critical work; 3. The Kantian sublime II: nature and morality; 4. The Romantic sublime; Part II. The Contemporary Sublime: 5. Art and the sublime; 6. Tragedy and the sublime; 7. The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness; 8. The environmental sublime.

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• Authors: Emily Brady, Emily (University of Edinburgh) Brady, BRADY EMILY
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2013
• EAN: 9780521194143
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19414-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Art & design styles: Romanticism, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800