Sublime Understanding
Subtitle: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780262161923
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich; Kant, Immanuel; Philosophy; Aesthetics; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; History & Surveys - Modern; 1724-1804; 1770-1831; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Kant, Immanuel,; Sublime, The
First sentence: Interest in Immanuel Kant's aesthetic theory has grown exponentially in recent years, and no aspect of it has received wider attention lately than his treatment of the sublime.
Description: "In Sublime Understanding, Kirk Pillow makes sublimity the center of an alternative conception of aesthetic response and interpretation. He draws an aesthetics of sublimity from Kant's Critique of Judgment, bolsters it with help from Hegel, and establishes its place in a broadened conception of human understanding (thus differing from the many scholars who use Hegel to dismiss Kant or vice versa).

He argues that sublime reflection provides a model for an interpretive response to the uncanny Other outside our conceptual grasp."--BOOK JACKET.