The Egalitarian Sublime: A Process Philosophy

Maps the history of the sublime to reveal its dark heart and creates a new, anarchic approachReassesses historical theories of the sublime from philosophers including Burke, Kant, Nietzsche and SchopenhauerCritiques the recent return to the sublime in Adorno, Lyotard, Brady, Nye, Zepke, Spuybroek an...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:Maps the history of the sublime to reveal its dark heart and creates a new, anarchic approachReassesses historical theories of the sublime from philosophers including Burke, Kant, Nietzsche and SchopenhauerCritiques the recent return to the sublime in Adorno, Lyotard, Brady, Nye, Zepke, Spuybroek and LloydFinds some of the most influential philosophies of the sublime to be unequal and unjustTakes a process philosophy approach to map the sublime through its effectsAgainst the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends a new, anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all but always imposed on the powerless.We call 'sublime' those things and experiences supposed to be the very best. But what if the best encourages the worst? What if the best leads to inequality and exploitation? Williams critiques the sublime over its long history and in recent returns to sublime nature and technologies. Deploying a new critical method that draws on process philosophy, he shows how the sublime has always led to inequality. This holds true even where it underpins ideas of cosmopolitan enlightenment, and even when refined by Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Žižek
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781474439138
DOI:10.1515/9781474439138

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