Sublime

By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule— From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE—Out of TIME. Bottomless vales and boundless floods, And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, With forms that no man can discover For the tears that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore;…

In my opinion, the novel A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki embodies Longinus’ idea on the sublime. A Tale for the Time Being is about two characters – Nao Yasutani, a sixteen-year-old girl who kept a diary in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and Ruth, a writer living in British Columbia, who finds the Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on shore as an aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. It is a great embodiment of sublimity because first, the concept of the novel is grand. It presents the idea of a…

Critical Analysis of Lintott’s ‘Sublime Hunger’ The subject of eating disorders can be a particularly difficult subject to analyse. This can probably explain why it is particularly overlooked within the realm of philosophy, despite being such a widespread and devastating illness. However, Lintott not only discusses eating disorders within a philosophical sphere, but furthermore she approaches the subject through a unique lens of the Kantian theory of the ‘sublime’. The term, coined by…

described as the unspeakable, the otherworldly, the demonic — that is, the sublime. In this encounter with the sublime, these characters are excluded from a general gathering of the community in beauty and harmony and are…

The events of September 11 have impacted Americans in many similar ways throughout the nation. In Kearney’s writing, “Terror, Philosophy and the Sublime: Some Philosophical Reflections on 11 September”, he discusses the events that took place and he brings up a question, “how can we understand what happened on September 11?” His piece talks about the idea that the “terror” from 9/11 comes from inside and out, meaning that the thoughts AND actions of everyone involved impacted the outcome of the…

The article “Andreas Gursky and the Contemporary Sublime” by Alix Ohlin, does a nice job illustration the work and purpose of Andreas Gursky’s artwork. His ability to display the human experience in our modern age globalized world is something that should be admired. One of Andreas Gursky’s creativity is his ability to display his artwork in a micro-macro perspective to give the viewer a different feel for the image. “This tension between micro and macro, one of the operating principles of his…

changeable standards considered in every culture and the many attempts to approach it. Throughout history, it has been glorified and highlighted in many ways. From a philosophical perspective, Kant, in Observation on the Feeling of Beautiful and Sublime , tackles beauty, through the view that women are identified by their beauty, while men first are viewed with respect to their intellect. His ideal beauty is a woman who has a paralytic mind as he believes that a “woman who has a head full of…

to do is to look into what might be characterised as sublime within contemporary art, what ideas and emotions are evoked by this description. Firstly aiming to define what the sublime is and then using three examples of contemporary art to analyse how these works may be seen as sublime. The Oxford dictionary definition of sublime is ‘Of great excellence or beauty’ (Oxford University Press, 2017). This definition could suggest that the sublime is of great quality or great aesthetic value.…

in this case. The article, Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, starts with a scenario of an individual waking up in the morning and immediately flushing out their system with laxatives. They talk about how they will not eat until 5 pm and how they will survive the day without food. It is hard to imagine something…

Aesthetics revolves around his conception behind the sublime. Kant proposes that all experiences of sublimity evoke the experience of pleasure within the individual experience the sublime. The pleasure derives from a negative liking within the person as they experience displeasure at the awareness of the limitations of their imagination, yet this results in pleasure at knowing the ability of our human reason (Kant, 1987). Kant’s characterisation of the sublime presents a good conception of…