Sublime Subjects: On the Impossibility of an Objective Theory of the Sublime
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Starting from 20th-century theories of the sublime, this essay shows that an objectivist interpretation of such concept cannot fit in with a return to Kantian aesthetics. My argument is based on four points: imagination’s failure, as it is described in “the Analitics of Sublime”; the non-conceptual nature of Kantian sublime; its incompatibility with the ttheory of the symbol; finally, Schiller’s interpretation, which, while trying to read Kant’s aesthetics in objective terms, ends up superimposing two contrasting patternsDownloads
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