Debate on Sublime in the End of 18th Century: Burke, Kant, Schiller Cover Image

Rasprava o uzvišenom krajem 18. veka: Berk, Kant i Šiler
Debate on Sublime in the End of 18th Century: Burke, Kant, Schiller

Author(s): Dragana Jeremić Molnar, Aleksandar Molnar
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: sublime; violence; history; politics; aesthetics; French revolution;

Summary/Abstract: In the article the authors are examining three positions within the 18th Century aesthetic discussion on the sublime – Edmund Burke’s, Immanuel Kant’s and Friedrich Schiller’s. They are also trying to reconstruct the political backgrounds of each of this theoretical positions: old regime conservatism (Burke), republican liberalism (Schiller) and romantic longing for the „third way“ (Kant). The most sophisticated and mature theory of sublime is found in Schiller’s aesthetic works, especially in those following his disappointment in French Revolution, in which the relationship between sublime and paradoxes of historical violence is most thoroughly reflected.

  • Issue Year: 20/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-159
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian