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The purpose of the present book is to develop and modify Schopenhauer’s doctrine of the sublime so as to establish the sublime as a viable aesthetic concept with a broader existential and metaphysical significance. The first part of this book offers the necessary preliminaries in order to develop Schopenhauer’s theory in a more fruitful way, and this first chapter provides the broader philosophical context in which his theory is to be interpreted.
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Christopher Janaway, ‘Schopenhauer’s Pessimism’, in Christopher Janaway, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 339.
See Bart Vandenabeele, ‘Schopenhauer and the Objectivity of Art’, in Bart Vandenabeele, ed., A Companion to Schopenhauer (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 219–233.
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Vandenabeele, B. (2015). Pessimism, Aesthetic Experience, and Genius. In: The Sublime in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358691_2
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