Analytic of the Sublime

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Analytic of the Sublime is the section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in which he analyzes the feeling of the sublime and its relation to reason, freedom, and the limits of human sensibility.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aesthetic theory text
philosophical work section
analyzes dynamical sublime
mathematical sublime
author Immanuel Kant
concerns aesthetic experience of overwhelming magnitude
aesthetic experience of overwhelming power
human finitude
relation between nature and freedom
countryOfOrigin Prussia
distinguishesFrom beautiful
field aesthetics
moral philosophy
philosophy of mind
follows Analytic of the Beautiful
hasForm systematic philosophical analysis
influenced German idealism
surface form: German Idealism

Jacques Derrida
Jean-François Lyotard
Romanticism
modern aesthetics
philosophy of art
postmodern theories of the sublime
keyConcept aesthetic judgment
failure of imagination
negative pleasure
reflective judgment
respect for the moral law
self-preservation of reason
supremacy of reason over sensibility
language German
locatedInWork Critique of the Power of Judgment
surface form: Critique of the Power of Judgment second part
mainTopic feeling of the sublime
freedom
limits of sensibility
moral vocation of human beings
relation between imagination and reason
sublime
originalTitle Analytik des Erhabenen
partOf Critique of Judgment
Critique of the Power of Judgment
precedes Critique of Judgment
surface form: Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment
publicationYear 1790
relatesTo freedom of the will
ideas of reason
moral law
practical reason
reason
supersensible

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Analytic of the Beautiful followedBy Analytic of the Sublime
Critique of the Power of Judgment hasSection Analytic of the Sublime