Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth century onward, sublime feeling is, instead, constantly rearticulated in a complex interaction with musicality.

Wurth takes as her point of departure Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment and Jean...