The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy

Bart Vandenabeele is the Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. He has written extensively on 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of language and communication. Vandenabeele is the editor of A Companion to Schopenhauer (2012) and a member of the international advisory board of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

Introduction PART I: AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION 1. Pessimism, Aesthetic Experience, and Genius 2. Sensory Perception and Aesthetic Contemplation PART II: THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME 3. The Aesthetics of the Beautiful 4. The Aesthetics of the Sublime 5. A Psychological Alternative to Schopenhauer's Theory of the Sublime PART III: VALUES OF THE SUBLIME 6. Tragedy, Ethics, and the Sublime 7. The Existential and Metaphysical Value of the Sublime Bibliography Index