Why the sublime is aesthetic awe
"This article focuses on the conceptual relationship between awe and the experience of the sublime. I argue that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as a species of awe, namely, as aesthetic awe. I support this conclusion by considering the prominent conceptual relations between awe...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The journal of aesthetics and art criticism / American Society for Aesthetics. Ed. Thomas Munro |
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Sprache: | eng |
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2021
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Zusammenfassung: | "This article focuses on the conceptual relationship between awe and the experience of the sublime. I argue that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as a species of awe, namely, as aesthetic awe. I support this conclusion by considering the prominent conceptual relations between awe and the experience of the sublime, showing that all of the options except the proposed one suffer from serious shortcomings. In maintaining that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as aesthetic awe, I draw from historical theories of the sublime as well as recent work in empirical psychology." |
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ISSN: | 0021-8529 |