The unaffordable and the sublime.
Continental Philosophy Review April 2, 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11007-022-09567-y (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Affordance Aesthetic experience Sublime Awe Unaffordability |
| Key points | Argues that certain exceptional aesthetic experiences remove us from pragmatic everyday life through a specific type of "unaffordability," and proposes that this notion of unaffordability also characterizes experiences of awe in their relation to the sublime. The argument is developed within a phenomenologically inspired enactivist, affordance-based account of aesthetic experience, supported by a review of recent neurophenomenological studies of awe. |
Abstract
In this paper I examine a set of exceptional aesthetic experiences that remove us from our pragmatic everyday life and involve a specific type of unaffordability. I then extend this notion of unaffordability to experiences of awe and its relation to the sublime. My analysis is guided by considerations of the phenomenologically inspired enactivist approach that supports an affordance-based accounts of aesthetic experience. I review some recent neurophenomenological studies of the experience of awe, and I then sketch out a phenomenology of awe as it approaches the sublime.
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