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The main concern of this chapter is Schopenhauer’s aesthetic doctrine of the sublime and the role pleasure plays in grounding this type of aesthetic experience. But I will come to that main concern obliquely, beginning instead with Kant’s formidably difficult account of the sublime, which heavily influenced Schopenhauer’s theory.
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See Vandenabeele, ‘Schopenhauer on the Values of Aesthetic Experience’, Southern Journal of Philosophy 45, 2007, 565–582.
See Tom Cochrane, ‘The Emotional Experience of the Sublime’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42, 2012, 134.
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Vandenabeele, B. (2015). The Aesthetics of the Sublime. In: The Sublime in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358691_5
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