The Sublime and Human Creations
Immanuel Kant pre-emptively excludes all man-made contrivances from his definition of the sublime. The limitations of human creation and the purposiveness in its design preclude it from consideration from both mathematical and dynamic sublimity. At best, human creation is “second-order” or “impurely...
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Laurentian University Library & Archives
2017-12-01
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Online Access: | https://pubs.biblio.laurentian.ca/index.php/contexte/article/view/90/171 |