Search Results - Sublime (philosophy)
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The art of dissent from the rhetoric of silence: the terror and promise of Dao and Khora
Published 2008“…This thesis reworks the idea of Chineseness as a translational point in its exploration of the intricate knot of nothingness, a sublimity which makes Chinese culture irreducible to the postcolonial, postmodern or poststructuralist movements because what the West arrogates from Eastern philosophy or contrariwise is simultaneously an interrogative advancement and a detour to selfsameness. …”
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Eighteenth-century responses to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Published 2010“…This thesis is about the sublime. Reading the DC through eighteenth-century eyes prioritises certain aspects of it which can, in various guises and at various times, be understood as sublime. …”
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Smell and the ancient senses
Published 2015“…From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. …”
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