Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime

by Mark Canuel

Read the Romantics from the perspective of both political theory and literary studies--and consider justice through the lens of the sublime.

In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty--because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity--provides a model for justice. Justice, Dissent,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405873
• ISBN13: 9781421405872
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"