Kant on Sublimity and Morality
Author(s) Joshua Rayman
Language: English
Genre(s): Philosophy
Series: Political Philosophy Now
- July 2012 · 256 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708321256
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325070
- · eBook - epub - 9781783165254
A book considering Kant's account of the overpowering feeling of the sublime, and the moral law within, which exercised an extraordinary influence on the movements of Romanticism, Hegelian phenomenology, and Continental Philosophy.
Part I: Genealogy of the Kantian Sublime Chapter One: Longinus and the Origins of the Sublimity-Morality Connexion Chapter Two: Sublimity and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics Chapter Three: Kant's German Precursors Part II: Kant on Sublimity and Morality Chapter Four: The Moral Functions of Sublimity in the Kantian System Chapter Five: Replies to Objections to Sublimity's Moral Functions Part III: Sublimity and Morality in German Idealism and Recent Continental Philosophy Chapter Six: Post-Kantian Continental Work on Sublimity and Morality Section I: Sublimity and Morality in German Idealism Section II: Sublimity and Morality in Contemporary Continental Philosophy