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The Sublime in Kant and Beckett


The Sublime in Kant and Beckett

Author: Bjørn K. Myskja

language: en

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Release Date: 2012-10-25


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Beckett's novel Molloy and the question how this work evokes a particular kind of feeling associated with its exhibition of meaninglessness, namely the feeling of the sublime, is the point of departure for this study. Kant's theory of the sublime is interpreted within the framework of his aesthetic and moral theories, suggesting a way to understand the claim to universal validity for aesthetic judgements. Kant claims that the judgement of the sublime serves morality but he fails to provide this link, so a theory of how this aesthetic judgement can contribute to the cultivation of moral character is developed. It is argued that Kant held that art, including narrative art like the novel, can be sublime. Kant's theory of the sublime is shown to be relevant for modern works of art, and the application of this Kantian framework throws new light on the discussion of the moral aspects of Beckett's literary work. According to this account, Molloy is a sublime work of art, and despite its amoral content can serve the reader's moral cultivation.

The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant


The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

Author: Robert Doran

language: en

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 2015-07-16


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The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.

Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian


Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian

Author: Erman Kaplama

language: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Release Date: 2013-12-12


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Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic principle. He revises the idea of nature (phusis) as the principle of motion referring to Heraclitus’ cosmology as well as Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s lectures on the pre-Socratics. Kaplama compares the Kantian sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian as aesthetic theories representing the transition from the sensible to supersensible and as cosmological theories that consider human nature (ethos) as an extension of nature. In light of such Nietzschean notions as the eternal recurrence and will to power, the Dionysian is shown to trigger the transition by which nature and art are redefined. Finally, Cosmological Aesthetics employs the principles of transition and motion to analyze Van Gogh’s Starry Night in an excursus.