The Egalitarian Sublime : : A Process Philosophy / / James Williams.
Maps the history of the sublime to reveal its dark heart and creates a new, anarchic approachReassesses historical theories of the sublime from philosophers including Burke, Kant, Nietzsche and SchopenhauerCritiques the recent return to the sublime in Adorno, Lyotard, Brady, Nye, Zepke, Spuybroek an...
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