Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian
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Aesthetics
Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Continental Philosophy
Cosmology
Dionysus
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Heidegger
Heraclitus
History of Philosophy
Kant
Modern Western Philosophy
Nietzsche
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of Human Nature
Philosophy of Nature
Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Sublime
Van Gogh
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- ISBN 9780761861560
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 160 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2013
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic principle. He revises the idea of nature (phusis) as the principle of motion referring to Heraclitus’ cosmology as well as Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s lectures on the pre-Socratics. Kaplama compares the Kantian sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian as aesthetic theories representing the transition from the sensible to supersensible and as cosmological theories that consider human nature (ethos) as an extension of nature. In light of such Nietzschean notions as the eternal recurrence and will to power, the Dionysian is shown to trigger the transition by which nature and art are redefined. Finally, Cosmological Aesthetics employs the principles of transition and motion to analyze Van Gogh’s Starry Night in an excursus.
Erman Kaplama is currently lecturing in philosophy, ethics, and governance at the University of the South Pacific. He was previously the Head of School of Social Sciences and assistant professor at Fiji National University. He holds a PhD in humanities and cultural studies from the University of London’s Birkbeck College, an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in political science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
