Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty - because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity - provides a model for justice. "Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime" makes a significant departure from this mode of thinking. Mark Canuel argues that the emphasis on beauty unwittingly reinforces, in the name of justice, the constraints of uniformity and conventionality. He calls for a more flexible and inclusive connection between aesthetics and justice, one founded on the Kantian concept of the sublime. The sublime captures the roles that asymmetry, complaint, and disagreement play in a complete understanding of a just society - a point, the author maintains, that was appreciated by a number of Romantic writers, including Mary Shelley. Canuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-08-26
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421405872

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Articulated by a careful, sensitive, and provocative writer, this critique is refreshing and valuable. -- Robert Barsky Review 19 Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime remains instructive in its portrayal of the various ways that theories inevitably relapse back into what they attempt to undo. In addition, interspersed throughout the chapters, Canuel offers convincing and powerful readings of major romantic texts. -- Luke Donahue Modern Philology Mark Canuel's provocative, lucid, and intelligent Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime challenges the dominant critical trend in the discourse of the sublime. The Year's Work in English Studies Subtly written, thought-provoking. -- Steve Vine Modern Language Review