Lecture : Juliane Rebentisch – The Crisis of the Sublime

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In view of recent environmental crises, the concept of the sublime seems to be relevant in two respects. These two respects correspond to the two sides of the sublime in Kant: the dynamically sublime on the one hand, and the mathematically sublime on the other. In view of the uncontrollable violence of extreme weather events, the association of the sublime with an overpowering might, as characterized by the dynamically sublime, seems obvious. Given that in the Anthropocene, environments tend to exceed human comprehension in their spatial . . . → En lire plus