Aesthetic Modes of the Infinite: Horror, Sublimity, and Relationality

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2023.a899679

Patricia García

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Abstract:What is the relationship between philosophical understandings of the infinite and their narrative expressions? This article explores the infinite in two aesthetic paradigms: the horror of the infinite in classical Greece, and Romanticism's glorification of the unlimited. It argues that these two approaches paved the way for a third, a "relational infinite" that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. To illustrate this third paradigm, I draw on the works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and on other fictions of the fantastic genre that make the boundless and endless a key element of the plot.

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无限的审美模式：恐怖、崇高与关联

摘要：哲学对无限的理解与其叙事表达之间有什么关系？本文探讨了两种美学范式中的无限：古典希腊对无限的恐惧和浪漫主义对无限的赞美。它认为，这两种方法为第三种方法铺平了道路，即20世纪下半叶出现的“关系无限”。为了说明这第三种范式，我借鉴了阿根廷作家豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的作品和其他奇幻类型的小说，这些小说使无限和无尽成为情节的关键元素。

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