The Sublime Anthropocene

Environmental Philosophy 13 (2):155-174 (2016)
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Abstract

In the Anthropocene, humanity has been forced to a self-critical reflection on its place in the natural order. A neglected tool for understanding this is the sublime. Sublime experience opens us up to encounters with ‘formless’ nature at the same time as we recognize the inevitability of imprinting our purposes on nature. In other words, it is constituted by just the sort of self-critical stance towards our place in nature that I identify as the hallmark of the Anthropocene ‘collision’ between human and earth histories.

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Byron Williston
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Death and transfiguration: Kant, Schopenhauer and Heidegger on the sublime.Julian Young - 2005 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48 (2):131 – 144.

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