The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy

by Bart Vandenabeele

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137358684
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Bart Vandenabeele is the Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. He has written extensively on 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of language and communication. Vandenabeele is the editor of A Companion to Schopenhauer (2012) and a member of the international advisory board of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION
1. Pessimism, Aesthetic Experience, and Genius
2. Sensory Perception and Aesthetic Contemplation
PART II: THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME
3. The Aesthetics of the Beautiful
4. The Aesthetics of the Sublime
5. A Psychological Alternative to Schopenhauer's Theory of the Sublime
PART III: VALUES OF THE SUBLIME
6. Tragedy, Ethics, and the Sublime
7. The Existential and Metaphysical Value of the Sublime
Bibliography
Index