Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

by Jean-François Lyotard

Book Overview

Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience--and in particular of the limits of the aesthetical--can be viewed as a general, yet necessarily open model for human understanding. In this revival, no text in the classical corpus of Western philosophy has been more frequently discussed than the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804722420
• ISBN13: 9780804722421
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"