{"product_id":"9781666977097","title":"What is the Sublime? Ecologies of Emptiness, Aesthetics, and the Visual Arts","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWhat is the Sublime?\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEcologies of Emptiness, Aesthetics, and the Visual Arts\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eChristopher Huck\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elaboration on the concept of the sublime that both clarifies the historical confusion, and offers recourse to the compulsion that characterizes our contemporary lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sublime has been an elusive concept since its introduction by Longinus. No one seems to agree on a definition of the term; neither the idealists (Burke, Kant), nor the modernists (Barnett Newman), nor the postmodernists (Lyotard). 'Sublime moments' reveal the unobscured, undistracted, and unselfconscious nature of our minds-free of worry, anxiety, and fear. This describes what, in Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, is called emptiness (\u003ci\u003esunyata\u003c\/i\u003e)-the genuine, underlying nature of who we are. Christopher Huck elaborates on this concept through a dialectical inquiry into the now-classic Burke-Kant sublime, which is grounded in either a notion of fear (Burke), or of something too vast to take in, but still somehow subject to rational containment (Kant). Huck demonstrates his view of the 'empty-sublime' through a revivification of the aesthetic experience which provokes and illuminates art's potential as expressive of the empty-sublime experience, evidenced in the work of visual artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Agnes Martin, and Wolfgang Laib. These artists exemplify art that emerges from a space of vividness, clarity, and unselfconscious openness; that is to say, a lucid emptiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChristopher C. Huck\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar with a PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781666977097\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223600857228,"sku":"9781666977097","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781666977097","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}