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Informationen zum Autor Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Klappentext The Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion >Wurth takes as her point of departure Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment and Jean-François Lyotard's aesthetic writings of the 1980s and 1990s. Kant framed the sublime narratively as an epic of selftranscendence. By contrast, Lyotard sought to substitute immanence for Kantian transcendence, yet he failed to deconstruct the Kantian epic. The book performs this deconstruction by juxtaposing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conceptions of the infinite, Sehnsucht, the divided self, and unconscious drives with contemporary readings of instrumental music. Zusammenfassung Shows how! from the mid eighteenth century onward! sublime feeling is! instead! constantly rearticulated in a complex interaction with musicality. This book rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. It presents a sublime of matter! rather than form-performative rather than representational.
