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Aesthetic Conflict and Contradiction: The Sublime in Kant and Kierkegaard - Couverture rigide

Cuff Snow, Samuel

 
9783111169439: Aesthetic Conflict and Contradiction: The Sublime in Kant and Kierkegaard
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 311116943X ISBN 13 : 9783111169439
Editeur : De Gruyter, 2023

Synopsis

The central claim of this comparative study of Kant and Kierkegaard is that the aesthetic experience of the sublime is both autonomous and formative for extra-aesthetic ends. Aesthetic autonomy is thus inseparable from aesthetic heteronomy.

In Part I, through an examination of Kant's Critique of Judgement and his essays on the French Revolution, the Kantian sublime is shown to conflict with our existing cognitive, moral and political frames of meaning, at the same time that the engagement of the aesthetic judge (Chapter 1) or the enthusiastic spectator (Chapter 2) with this conflict furthers our pursuit of cognitive, moral and political ends. The Kantian sublime is built on the autonomy of aesthetic judgement, which nevertheless has non-aesthetic value.

Part II argues that certain aesthetic and ethical-religious figures in Kierkegaard's work can be shown to be transfigurations of the Kantian sublime, despite the absence of the term. Antigone and the silhouettes from Either/Or embody what I coin the tragic sublime and sublime grief. The God-man in Practice in Christianity is interpreted as a sublime image of contradiction. The figures are submitted to aesthetic representation, while their contradictory interior lives are unrepresentable. The Kierkegaardian sublime is built on a radical critique of aesthetic autonomy, whose failure serves the end of ethico-religious self-formation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Cuff Snow, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
311116943X
ISBN 13 
9783111169439
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
241
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