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Book Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Download or read book Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime written by Kant/Goldthwait and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to readers of the three Critiques.

Book Beautiful Sublime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Moore
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1990-03-01
  • ISBN : 0804766118
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Beautiful Sublime written by Leslie Moore and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sublime' and 'Milton' - no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton's genius 'wonderfully turned to the Sublime', John Dennis calls Milton 'the sublimist of all our poets', while Jonathan Richardson concludes that Milton's mind 'is truly poetical. Great, strong, elegant and sublime'. Modern critics look askance at these 'sublime Miltonists', who are charged with forcing Paradise Lost, they took what was essentially a Restoration term and challenged it with an alternative aesthetic category - the beautiful. Though beauty did mark a certain generic stability (in a Burkean sense), it came increasingly to represent generic transformation, which in its most radical form recast the notion of a 'sublime Milton'. It is this play of oxymorons - sublime epic and beautiful sublime - that marks the brilliance of the early eighteenth century' criticism of Paradise Lost. To explore the early-eighteenth-century view of the 'sublime Milton', the author analyzes the work of five readers of Paradise Lost during the years 1701-34: Joseph Addison, the only writer of the five who attained any lasting fame; John Dennis, by far the most important - and overlooked - of the early Miltonists; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, author of a brilliant parody of Book 8 and of even more remarkable accounts of Eve; Jane Adams, a lyric poet from Scotland who re-imagined the domestic hierarchy of Adam and Eve; and Jonathan Richardson, who attempted the first Christian interpretation of Paradise Lost and who authored the first biography of Milton as a 'sublime poet'. Together these critics represent the richness, cohesion, and variety of the interpretive community reading Paradise Lost in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

Book Geek Sublime

Download or read book Geek Sublime written by Vikram Chandra and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Book Sublime

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  • Author : Christina Lauren
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-10-27
  • ISBN : 1481413694
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Sublime written by Christina Lauren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucy and Colin discover they have a connection on the grounds of the private school they attend, but Lucy has a startling secret"--

Book The Sublime

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  • Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-07-30
  • ISBN : 0521143675
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Sublime written by Timothy M. Costelloe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.

Book How Pictures Complete Us

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  • Author : Paul Crowther
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-13
  • ISBN : 9780804798464
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book How Pictures Complete Us written by Paul Crowther and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically. Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an effect of art, but How Pictures Complete Us distinguishes itself by revealing how this experience is embodied in pictorial structures and styles. Through detailed discussions of artworks from the Renaissance through postmodern times, Paul Crowther reappraises the entire scope of beauty and the sublime in the context of both representational and abstract art, offering unexpected insights into familiar phenomena such as ideal beauty, pictorial perspective, and what pictures are in the first place.

Book A Companion to Romanticism

Download or read book A Companion to Romanticism written by Duncan Wu and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Book Anthropology  History  and Education

Download or read book Anthropology History and Education written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.

Book Observations on the Sense of the Beautiful and the Sublime

Download or read book Observations on the Sense of the Beautiful and the Sublime written by Immanuel Kant and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Immanuel Kant’s 1764 Observations on the Sense of the Beautiful and the Sublime in modern American English with the original German in the back. This is Volume II in the Complete Works of Immanuel Kant from Newcomb Livraria Press. Immanuel Kant’s 1764 Observations on the Sense of the Beautiful and the Sublime (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen) is his entry into the philosophic field of Aesthetics and provides the framework of his theories on beauty which would be fully enumerated in his 1790 Critique of Judgement. Kant distinguishes between the beautiful and the Sublime, which are further divided into Attached (mathematical) and Free (dynamic) Beauty. The beautiful is playful and limited to certain forms, while the sublime is serious and limitless. Beauty inhabits life; the sublime is beyond life. This is a more nuanced, developed form of Edmund Burke’s popular theories on Aesthetics.

Book Kant  Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings

Download or read book Kant Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's later works will discover a Kant interested in the 'beauty' as well as the 'dignity' of humanity, in human diversity as well as the universality of morals, and in practical concerns rather than abstract philosophizing. Readers will be able to see Kant's development from the Observations through the Remarks towards the moral philosophy that eventually made him famous.

Book The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

Download or read book The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke written by David Bromwich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke’s career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Book Sublime Beauty

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781581780680
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sublime Beauty written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on the Picturesque  as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful

Download or read book Essays on the Picturesque as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful written by Sir Uvedale Price (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on the Picturesque  as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful

Download or read book Essays on the Picturesque as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful written by Sir Uvedale Price and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edge of the Sublime

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  • Author : Jeannine J. Falino
  • Publisher : Hudson Hills
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781555952846
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Edge of the Sublime written by Jeannine J. Falino and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated catalogue of over 100 color plates, it addresses artist's lifework who first established his international reputation in 1986 when he produced enameled jewelry using unique, electroformed shapes.

Book The Retrieval of the Beautiful

Download or read book The Retrieval of the Beautiful written by Galen A. Johnson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson’s formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world’s element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to replace Substance, Matter, or Life as the name of Being. Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind is at the core of the book, so Johnson engages, as Merleau-Ponty did, the writings and visual work of Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, and Paul Klee, as well as Rilke’s commentary on Cézanne and Rodin. From these widely varying aesthetics emerge the fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful: desire, repetition, difference, rhythm, and the sublime. The third part of Johnson’s book takes each of these up in turn, bringing Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic thinking into dialogue with classical philosophy as well as Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Johnson concludes his final chapter with a direct dialogue with Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and also Lyotard, on the subject of the beautiful and the sublime. As we experience with Rodin’s Balzac, beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, majestic, mysterious, and transcendent.