Beschreibung:
This volume-the second in Max Van Manen's Phenomenology of Practice series-brings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience.
Contents:1) An Introduction to the Sublimity of Images 2) The Flight of Icarus: The Sublime as Awe & Terror 3) The Tate's Blue Butterflies: The Sublime as the Experience of the Exquisite & the Monstrous 4) The Raw Appeal of a Figure with Meat: The Sublime as the Experience of Horror & Delight5) The Challenge of Doubting Thomas: The Sublime as the Experience of Clarity & Mystery6) On a Starry Night like this, I would like to Die: The Sublime as Existence & Inexistence7) Sublimity and the Image 8) Pedagogy and the Sublime Image 9) References