The Sublime: Groundwork Towards a Theory

by Lap-Chuen Tsang and Tsang Lap-Chuen

This is a work of quite unusual philosophical interest, original and deeply insightful. Dr Tsang argues on the one hand, that sublimity is not a property of objects regarded as sublime, but belongs to our construal of objects, while on the other he also argues that when we so construe an object we are giving expression to some limit to our life, not an external barrier, but a limit internal to it. But what lies at the limit cannot be represented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460275
• ISBN13: 9781580460279
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"