Egalitarian Sublime

Egalitarian Sublime
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781474439138
ISBN-13 : 1474439136
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Book Synopsis Egalitarian Sublime by : James Williams

Download or read book Egalitarian Sublime written by James Williams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call sublime those things and experiences supposed to be the very best. But what if the best actually leads to inequality and exploitation? Williams critiques the sublime over its long history and in recent returns to sublime nature and technologies. Deploying a new critical method that draws on process philosophy, he shows how the sublime has always led to inequality. This holds true even where it underpins ideas of cosmopolitan enlightenment, and even when refined by Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Zizek. Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends a new, anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all but always imposed on the powerless.


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