The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Bart Vandenabeele

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3. Aesthetic Contemplation

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   2. Pessimism, Aesthetic Experience, and Genius

      • Bart Vandenabeele

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   3. Sensory Perception and Aesthetic Contemplation

      • Bart Vandenabeele

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4. The Beautiful and the Sublime

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   2. The Aesthetics of the Beautiful

      • Bart Vandenabeele

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   3. The Aesthetics of the Sublime

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   4. A Psychological Alternative to Schopenhauer’s Theory of the Sublime

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5. Values of the Sublime

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   2. Tragedy, Ethics, and the Sublime

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   3. The Existential and Metaphysical Value of the Sublime

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6. Back Matter

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The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately to rework Schopenhauer's theory into a viable form so as to establish the sublime as a distinctive aesthetic category with a broader existential and metaphysical significance.

• Arthur Schopenhauer
• the sublime
• sublimity
• the beautiful
• beauty
• aesthetic value
• philosophy of art
• aesthetics
• philosophy of value
• aesthetic judgement
• philosophy of mind
• 19th-century German philosophy
• empathy
• Immanuel Kant
• environmental aesthetics
• tragedy
• will
• metaphysics
• anthropology
• ethics
• Kant
• philosophy
• Philosophy of art
• Schopenhauer

• Ghent University, Belgium

  Bart Vandenabeele

Bart Vandenabeele is the Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. He has written extensively on 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of language and communication. Vandenabeele is the editor of A Companion to Schopenhauer (2012) and a member of the international advisory board of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

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