A Theory of the Environmental Sublime: An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Sandra Shapshay
While the notion of the rhetorical sublime has ancient roots, the category of the natural sublime was theorized first in the 18th century by Burke, Kant and others, as a mixed, painful-pleasurable experience paradigmatically of vast and overwhelming natural places like mountain ranges and stormy seas. By the 21st century, a far-less-metaphysically-inclined age, philosophical accounts […]