Aesthetic Theory: The Sublime

READING LIST (ALL TEXTS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST):

Primary Works:

BURKE, EDMUND. A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE, 2008.

Hepburn, R. W. “Wonder” in ‘Wonder’ and Other Essays. Edinburgh University Press, 1984.

Kant, Immanuel. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Trans John Goldthwait. University of California Press, 2003.

Longinus. On Great Writing (On the Sublime). Trans. G M. A. Grube. Hackett Publishing, 1991.

Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. Trans. John Harvey. Oxford University Press, 1958.

Recommended Secondary Sources:

Danto, Arthur. “Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime”. In Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. Columbia University Press, 2007.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. Selected Essays from The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Stanford University Press, 1991.