Is the Sublime Sustainable? A Comparative Aesthetics Approach to the Sublime

Is the Sublime Sustainable? introduces the key points of debate around the sublime while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach. In it, you will discover how thinking on the sublime emerged historically and then engage with the recent critical scholarship on the topic, including from the fields of theology, philosophy, and literature. The critiques of the sublime are then expanded in dialogue with perspectives from Japanese aesthetics and art, shaping the argument that what is needed today is a sublime that enriches human lives by cultivating profound, participative relationships.

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Contents
Note on Translations
Acknowledgments
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction: Questioning the Sublime and Standing before a Waterfall
1 Locating the Sublime in the Euro-American Context
2 Sustaining Depth: Critiquing the Sublime with Theological Aesthetics
3 Preserving Particularity: Critiquing the Sublime with Environmental Aesthetics
4 Cultivating Participation: Critiquing the Sublime with Critical Theory
Conclusion: toward an Everyday Sublime
Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Peter L Doebler, Peter L. Doebler
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2023
• EAN: 9789004538535
• ISBN: 978-90-0-453853-5
• No. of pages: 104
• Weight: 203 g
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in; Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries