The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference - 9780415148108

Taylor & Francis

The Sublime, Terror and Human DifferenceAuthor(s): Christine Battersby\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415148108, 978-0415148108\nSynopsis\nChristine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. \n\nThrough a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the other in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical female sublime. A central feature of The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is its engagement with recent debates around 9/11, race and Islam. Battersby shows how, since the eighteenth century, the pleasures of the sublime have been described in terms of the transcendence of terror. Linked to the feminine, the sublime was closed of.