Philosophy as a vanitas: Lyotard’s exploded Sublime

French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard’s changing concepts of the sublime (after Immanuel Kant) are traced here. Overriding normative responses to Lyotard’s Artforum texts on the sublime of the later 1980s, I argue for a fulcrum moment shared with painter Jacques Monory in California in the later...

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Main Author: Sarah Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2021-08-01
Series:Itinera
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/16103