The sublime in the anti-sublime aesthetics of everyday life

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Claridadescrf.v11i1.4882

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The Sublime, Everyday Aesthetics, Everyday Sublime, Modern Aesthetics, Contemporary Aesthetics,

Abstract

In this paper, we try to approach two apparently opposed realities, such as the Romantic experience of the sublime and the emergent aesthetics of everyday life. However, we want to apply a different point of view from that of Thomas Leddy. For this author, there are extraordinary traits in ordinary objects and experiences, so the irrelevant things in daily life become big and frightening. For us, the sublime experience of everyday life involves taking the everydayness as pure everydayness, as it is proposed by Yuriko Saito. It requires paying more attention to different aspects than those fixed by modern aesthetics for the sublime, such as the emotion of astonishment and smallness. With these two features, we draw another historical path for this aesthetic experience thanks to thinkers like Burke, Schopenhauer, Ortega y Gasset and Carolyn Korsmeyer.

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Author Biography

María Jesús Godoy Domínguez, Universidad de Sevilla

Departamento de Estética e Historia de la Filosofía, Prof. Contratada Doctora

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Published

2019-08-21

How to Cite

Godoy Domínguez, M. J. (2019). The sublime in the anti-sublime aesthetics of everyday life. Claridades. Revista De filosofía, 11(1), 33–56. https://doi.org/10.24310/Claridadescrf.v11i1.4882

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