The Western theory of tradition
Subtitle: terms and paradigms of the cultural sublime
By: Sanford Budick.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Sublime, The.; Tradition (Philosophy); Civilization, Western.
Description: "Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures that has been only partially understood: according to this concept, the act of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomenon.

This dual phenomenon Budick calls the cultural sublime, and he traces it in literary, philosophical, and artistic works from Homer, Virgil, and the Bible to Rembrandt, Milton, Kant, Baudelaire, Freud, and Sarraute."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-289) and index.