{"title":"Sublime Miseries","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Starting with a critical reading of Kant, this chapter goes on to consider Žižek’s philosophy of the sublime. The study of Žižek and sublime miseries grows out of an interpretation and defence of Schopenhauer on the sublime. The chapter also considers Adorno and Lyotard on the sublime. It concludes with a positive assessment of Kristeva’s work on the abject sublime.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121679164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining the Egalitarian Sublime","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter gives a detailed definition of the egalitarian sublime. It distinguishes this anarchic definition from Rancière’s political philosophy while taking inspiration from Balibar’s work. The chapter claims that the sublime is always at risk of leading to inequalities. The chapter finishes by repudiating the idea that we can arrive at a state free of the sublime. This involves a critical reading of the shift from the sublime to wonder in Genevieve Lloyd’s philosophy.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129211222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nietzsche Against the Egalitarian Sublime","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter responds to the challenge presented by Nietzsche against the egalitarian sublime. The approach is through the effects of definitions of the sublime, with reference to Burke. The chapter considers how Nietzsche distinguishes the masses and a few sublime individuals whose work creates a new sublime. The chapter connects the sublime in Nietzsche to the idea of the untimely. It rejects the idea that though the sublime is by the few it is for the many.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"04 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122532552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Return to the Sublime","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter studies the return to the sublime in recent philosophy and culture. It analyses and rejects the technological sublime defended by David Nye and the environmental sublime put forward by Emily Brady. There is a consideration of the link between the sublime and nostalgia, and an explanation of the link between the sublime and values.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130380302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: The Sublime as Crisis","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter reflects on the idea of the sublime as crisis. It rejects the idea of the sublime as a pure experience and instead insists that the sublime is always constructed. This construction always involves crisis in the sense of the definition of new values and in the sense of a critical definition of the sublime itself. The chapter and the book end with the idea that the sublime should always be multiple: many anarchic sublimes, not one.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130139510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microcritique and the Sublime","authors":"James Williams","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439114.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter sets out the method for analysing the sublime: microcritique. The method is inspired by microhistory and the work of Carlo Ginzburg, in particular. The chapter presents the problem of exclusion, whereby methods lead to exclusions of evidence and of different ways of life. To mitigate this problem, it defends a fragmentary and open methodology inspired by large frame and close-up takes, inspired by cinema and the work of Siegfried Kracauer.","PeriodicalId":328301,"journal":{"name":"The Egalitarian Sublime","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132460180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}