Sublime

when students are encouraged “To dream the impossible dream”? According to Giambattista Vico, students are capable to unlock their greatness, to release their innermost divine nature, to carry on to lofty and grandeur achievements, to triumph the sublime. For Vico, this is the heroic mind. The great philosophers of the past defined the “Hero” as one who forever, without pause, diligently pursues the quest for greatness and work all the while with good deeds and the betterment of mankind as a…

following the premises of sublimity previously proposed by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The aim of this work is to analyse Poe’s poem The Raven through his critical essays The Philosophy of Composition and The Poetic Principle to prove that Poe takes Burke’s ideas of what constitutes the sublime and applies them in the poem. However, a short synapsis of the poem is necessary so as to understand the foundations of the…

through the concept of the ‘sublime.’ Following his metaphor for art, he explains that “a work [of art] can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Thus understood, postmodernism is not modernism at its end, but in a nascent state, and this state is recurrent.” This nascent state, the chaotic ‘depthlessness’ (as Jameson described above), is the ‘sublime.’ The sublime is an unpresentable condition that all presentable forms are built out of. The metaphor of the sublime being inherent in…

At the end of Isaac Asimov 's The Caves of Steel, robots seem to be the salvation of the human race, as foreseen by Dr. Fastolfe and the spacers--a highly advanced society of humans from the outer worlds. At the same time the spacers believe they have preserved the future of humanity, however, in an event foreshadowing how robots will one day represent a threat to humanity and perhaps the failure of the spacers’ plan, Robot Daneel Olivaw says the most shocking lines of the story: “[g]o and sin…

determination to achieve freedoms of worship, speech, and feeling. The Romantics sought to express these new found freedoms through imaginative and emotional artworks. A primary element of the Romanticism period was the increased interest in the sublime. The sublime was a product of the dark middle ages, where artists combined this imagination to create nightmarish and sadistic imagery. The artist, John Martin, used this period of subjective emotion to produce apocalyptic biblical paintings. One…

The meaning of both terms is held simply, what is beautiful is soft and sweetening, sugar in a personified form, something people wish to gaze upon. The sublime is cast in shadow, a sharp taste, something a person doesn’t wish to glance at, and yet, they must stare, they have no other choice as they quiver in its wake. Such ideas are still held in modern literature, however, as this method of perceiving the…

THEORETICAL APPROACH Megaprojects The Concorde, in the context of project management, was quite special as it was a joint partnership between two economically and culturally different states--England and France. Bent Flyvberg is one of the first academics to study megaprojects from a program management perspective in order to better understand the economic, social, and environmental impacts, which is what drives the organizational interest in our case study of the Concorde. This paper will use…

folds,” / “Thy secret majesty conceal”/ “Advancing clouds from every point of heaven” / “Like hosts of gathering foes” (3-8). In the next section the speaker describes the anticipation of both humans and animals have of this coming storm. Here the sublime is very strongly conveyed. Edmund Burke declares that “no passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”/ “whatever…

emotion; a trait inherent and fundamental to human life. Likewise, the lasting appeal of emotion in contrast to the brevity of intellect and reason reinforces Romanticism as a strongly emotional aesthetic force. The notions of corrupt civil society, the sublime, freedom, and the conflict between man and the natural world render nature as a pivotal influence on the facet of…

wilderness grips every American citizen. Some authors including, William Cronon, have gone to great lengths to explain American infatuation with the wild. Cronon in his article The Trouble with Wilderness, Or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, presents the sublime nature of wilderness as one of the reasons Americans imagine nature. I believe both I, Krakauer and Chris McCandless disagree with William’s Cronon’s assessment of the American psyche. Rather than seeing the wilderness as, “rare places…