1st Edition
Visual Phenomenology Encountering the Sublime Through Images
By Erika Goble
Copyright 2017
180 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume—the second in Max Van Manen’s Phenomenology of Practice series—brings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience. Erika Goble first traces the concept’s origin and development in Western philosophy, revealing how efforts to theorize aesthetic quality in... Read more
Contents:
1) An Introduction to the Sublimity of Images
2) The Flight of Icarus: The Sublime as Awe & Terror
3) The Tate’s Blue Butterflies: The Sublime as the Experience of the Exquisite & the Monstrous
4) The Raw Appeal of a Figure with Meat: The Sublime as the Experience of Horror & Delight
5) The Challenge of Doubting Thomas: The Sublime as the Experience of Clarity & Mystery
6) On a Starry Night like this, I would like to Die: The Sublime as Existence & Inexistence
7) Sublimity and the Image
8) Pedagogy and the Sublime Image
9) References
1) An Introduction to the Sublimity of Images
2) The Flight of Icarus: The Sublime as Awe & Terror
3) The Tate’s Blue Butterflies: The Sublime as the Experience of the Exquisite & the Monstrous
4) The Raw Appeal of a Figure with Meat: The Sublime as the Experience of Horror & Delight
5) The Challenge of Doubting Thomas: The Sublime as the Experience of Clarity & Mystery
6) On a Starry Night like this, I would like to Die: The Sublime as Existence & Inexistence
7) Sublimity and the Image
8) Pedagogy and the Sublime Image
9) References
Biography
Erika Goble is Research Manager and Researcher at NorQuest College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
"This engaging and original book reveals whole new dimensions of the experiences of the sublime. It will captivate art critics, philosophers, and laymen alike." - Alphonso Lingis, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University
