The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Longinus`s theory of sublimity .............25 Defining the longinian sublime ...........25 Longinus`s five sources of sublimity ................58 Longinus on Sublimity in nature and culture ......................82 2. Sublimity and modernity ........95 Boileau: the birth of a Concept ...............97 Dennis: Terror and religion ..........124 Burker : Sublime individualism .........141 3. The sublimity of the mind : kant.................171 The kantian sublime in 1764: Observations on the feelings of the beautiful and the sublime .....174 The sublime in kant`s Critique of the power of judgement ........202 Judging nature as a Magnitude : the mathematically subline .221 Judging nature as a power : The dynamically subline ......240 Sublimity and culture in Kant ...........260