The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy [electronic resource] /
Vandenabeele, Bart.author.
The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately to rework Schopenhauer's theory into a viable form so as to establish the sublime as a distinctive aesthetic category with a broader existential and metaphysical significance.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetic contemplation -- Pessimism, aesthetic experience, and genius -- Sensory perception and aesthetic contemplation -- The beautiful and the sublime -- The aesthetics of the beautiful -- The aesthetics of the sublime -- A psychological alternative to Schopenhauer's theory of the sublime -- Values of the sublime -- Tragedy, ethics, and the sublime -- The existential and metaphysical value of the sublime.
The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately to rework Schopenhauer's theory into a viable form so as to establish the sublime as a distinctive aesthetic category with a broader existential and metaphysical significance.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Aesthetics.
Philosophy of mind.
Metaphysics.
Anthropology.
History of Philosophy.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Aesthetics.
Philosophy of Mind.
Metaphysics.
Anthropology.