The Rupture : On Knowledge and the Sublime.

By:

Fane, Olivia

Contributor(s):

Harris, John B

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781788360463

Subject(s):

Sublime, The

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: The RuptureDDC classification:

111.85

LOC classification:

BH301.S5 .F364 2020

Online resources:

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Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- The Other Shore -- What is the sublime? -- The Rupture -- Chapter One -- Longinus -- Burke -- Kant -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two -- Introduction -- The Other Shore: The Sublime in Poetry -- A Paradigm: Openness and Closure -- Theories of Knowledge -- Critical Realism -- Lawson's Epistemology: Openness and Closure in Art and Religion -- A Possible Place for the Sublime in Kant's Epistemology -- Other Interpretations of the Sublime in Kant: Aesthetics versus Epistemology -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three -- Introduction -- A Critique of Post-modernism -- Derrida and Negative Theology -- Conclusion -- A Short Essay on Truth -- Fear and Longing: A Symposium -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Also Available.

Summary: The sublime rests precariously on the edge of the abyss.'This volume is a collaboration between wordsmith Olivia Fane and painter John B. Harris. Fane's first essay is on the philosophical understanding of the sublime. The sublime first became a subject of serious philosophical thought in the eighteenth century, thanks to Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. Fane argues for an interpretation of the sublime as the radically other, and argues that its function is primarily epistemological, in that it reveals to us our own being and finitude. She goes on to show how this tallies with ideas of negative theology and post-modernism.In her second chapter,'A Short Essay on Truth', Fane suggests that societies and cultures suffer from a 'hermeneutic circle of knowledge' -- in other words knowledge is based on agreement rather than authentic understanding. She shows how the function of art and religion at their best is to attempt to break through the circle, turning us from sleepwalkers into p.

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The sublime rests precariously on the edge of the abyss.'This volume is a collaboration between wordsmith Olivia Fane and painter John B. Harris. Fane's first essay is on the philosophical understanding of the sublime. The sublime first became a subject of serious philosophical thought in the eighteenth century, thanks to Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. Fane argues for an interpretation of the sublime as the radically other, and argues that its function is primarily epistemological, in that it reveals to us our own being and finitude. She goes on to show how this tallies with ideas of negative theology and post-modernism.In her second chapter,'A Short Essay on Truth', Fane suggests that societies and cultures suffer from a 'hermeneutic circle of knowledge' -- in other words knowledge is based on agreement rather than authentic understanding. She shows how the function of art and religion at their best is to attempt to break through the circle, turning us from sleepwalkers into p.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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