Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Donald Loose -- Introduction / Donald Loose -- The Genuine Sublime: / Herman van Erp -- Kant’s Aesthetics of Morals / Birgit Recki -- The Dynamic Sublime as the Pivoting Point between Nature and Freedomin Kant / Donald Loose -- Sublimity, Freedom, and Necessity in the Philosophy of Kant / Arthur Kok -- Teleology in Kant’s Philosophy of Culture and History: / Christian Krijnen -- The Lord and the Sublime: / Paul Cobben -- The Sublime Monster / Jacob Rogozinski -- The Tragical Sublime / Simon Critchley -- The Sublime and the Limits of Metaphysics / Frans van Peperstraten -- Melville’s ‘Sublime Uneventfulness’. Toward a Phenomenology of the Sublime / Ruud Welten -- Contributors / Donald Loose -- Index of Rituals / Donald Loose.

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What are we talking about when we qualify something as sublime? Is it just a qualification of the beautiful in its most touching degree? Is it a qualification of something ouside there anyway? Is it a feeling or a reflecting judgment on aesthetic appreciation? And can we reduce the sublime to the aesthetic? The authors of this book all take the analysis of Kant in \'Critique of the Power of Judgment\' as their primary reference. The argument of this book however is to show in what way the Kantian legacy on this topic is still a main stream of inspiration for contemporary thinking, whether in line with Kant or overcoming his primary impetus for modern philosophy of freedom in a critical reception.