Le paysage et l’expérience du numineux dans les récits autobiographiques de George Sand
April 1, 2018 Carlota Vicens-Pujol
In 1917 Rudolf Otto proposed the word “numinous” to denote the irrational side of religious experience, experience that is an apprehension of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. In the same way Edmund Burke or Immanuel Kant, who theorised the aesthetics of the sublime, spoke of this kind of delicious horror that man feels when faced with that which surpasses him and makes him aware of his...