The limits of the sublime, the sublime of limits: Hermeneutics as a critique of the postmodern sublime

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-181

  Carroll, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61049283774     PISSN: 00218529     EISSN: 15406245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2008.00297.x     Document Type: Review

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2. Theodor W. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, Gesammelte Schriften Band 7 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970), p. 296
3. trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor as Aesthetic Theory (London: Athlone Press, 1997), p. 199. In subsequent references to these volumes, the first page number refers to the original German edition, the second, in parentheses, to the English translation
4. Jean-François Lyotard, "Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime," trans. Lisa Liebmann, Artforum 20 (1982): 64-69, quote from p. 68
5. Welsch, Ästhetisches Denken, pp. 91-92
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7. see Jean-François Lyotard, "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde," trans. Lisa Liebmann, Geoffrey Bennington, and Marian Hobson, Paragraph 6 (1985): 1-18
8. Jean-François Lyotard, "After the Sublime: The State of Aesthetics," in The States of Theory: History, Art, & Critical Discourse, ed. David Carroll (Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 297-304, quote from p. 303
9. Jean-François Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), p. 110
10. Lyotard, The Inhuman, pp. 135-136
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13. G. W. F. Hegel, System der Philosophie, I. Teil, Sämtliche Werke: Jubiläumsausgabe in 20 Bänden, Band 8, ed. Hermann Glockner (Stuttgart: Frommann, 1927-1930), p. 220
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20. Wellmer, "Adorno, die Moderne und das Erhabene," p. 184 (161)
21. Wellmer, "Adorno, die Moderne und das Erhabene," p. 197 (174)
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26. Lyotard, The Sublime and the Avant-Garde, p. 2
27. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, p. 364 (245), translation amended
28. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, p. 293 (197)
29. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, p. 285 (191)
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34. See Thomas Weiskel, The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. 17
35. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, p. 295 (198), translation amended
36. Wellmer, "Adorno, die Moderne und das Erhabene," p. 200 (177)
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38. translated by Frank A. Capuzzi with J. Glenn Gray and David Farrell Krell as "Letter on Humanism" in Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 217-265, 228
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40. Wellmer, "Wahrheit, Schein, Versöhnung," pp. 26, 19 (18, 11)
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43. Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie, p. 122 (79), translation amended
44. Lyotard, "Presenting the Unpresentable," pp. 66, 68
45. Butler, Early Modernism, p. 72
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