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Hegel on the Sublime

Summary/Abstract: In this text the prominent American theorist views Hegel’s work on the sublime as a cross-section of the epistemological discourse and the rhetorical discourse. The Hegelian sublime is related to a peculiar concept of De Man, namely the Kantian materiality. It gives an original explanation of the need of a work of art or a natural phenomenon in order for the sublime to occur. Further on, De Man elaborates on Biblical examples used by Hegel in his Lectures on Aesthetics as examples of the sublime. What is the medium of divine creation, the defining speech or the light that makes the things visible? And moreover, if thinking is only causal sequencing, what is the rhetorical status of its language? De Man reveals the important place of aesthetics as an original place of the political discourse.

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