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At the Limits: What Drives Experiences of the Sublime

Margherita Arcangeli

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Aesthetics, both in its theoretical and empirical forms, has seen a renewed interest in the sublime, an aesthetic category dear to traditional philosophers, but quite neglected by contemporary philosophy. Our aim is to offer a novel perspective on the experience of the sublime. More precisely, our hypothesis is that the latter arises from 'a radical limit-experience', which is a metacognitve awareness of the limits of our cognitive capacities as we are confronted with something indefinitely greater or more powerful than us. This hypothesis better explains the negative feelings involved in the experience of the sublime and accounts for its demarcation from other experiences (for example, terrible beauty). Experiences of the sublime have an overall positive valence, though. We will explore different ways in which a subject can try to overcome the negative evaluation involved in radical limit-experiences, and suggest that only one of them is appropriate to experiences of the sublime.

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Margherita Arcangeli, Jérôme Dokic. At the Limits: What Drives Experiences of the Sublime. British Journal of Aesthetics, 2021, 61 (2), pp.145-161. ⟨10.1093/aesthj/ayaa030⟩. ⟨ijn_03498627⟩
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