{"product_id":"the-sublime-terror-and-human-difference-paperback","title":"The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Battersby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the 'other' in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical 'female sublime'. A central feature of \u003cem\u003eThe Sublime, Terror and Human Difference\u003c\/em\u003e is its engagement with recent debates around '9\/11', race and Islam. Battersby shows how, since the eighteenth century, the pleasures of the sublime have been described in terms of the transcendence of terror. Linked to the 'feminine', the sublime was closed off to flesh-and-blood women, to 'Orientals' and to other supposedly 'inferior' human types. Engaging with Kant, Burke, the German Romantics, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray and Arendt, as well as with women writers and artists, Battersby traces the history of these exclusions, while finding resources within the history of western culture for thinking human differences afresh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sublime, Terror and Human Difference\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for students of continental philosophy, gender studies, aesthetics, literary theory, visual culture, and race and social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Battersby is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a leading philosophical thinker, with specific interests in feminist metaphysics and aesthetics and the author of \u003cem\u003eGender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.14 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736873177151,"sku":"9780415148115","price":112.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4850429b56b84fc00dd9193229500284.webp?v=1765148140","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-sublime-terror-and-human-difference-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}