Neculau's article 12.1
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Neculau's article 12.1
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Title
The Sublimity of Violence: Kant and the Aesthetic Response to the French Revolution
Abstract
Kant identified in the “spectators’” enthusiastic response to the French Revolution the clear sign of a moral disposition in humankind. Following Hannah Arendt’s classic interpretation, but departing from it in important respects, I attempt to show in this paper that the “spectatorial” account of Kant’s view of the French Revolution makes sense only if it is understood in terms of a subject’s aesthetic response to objects of natural sublimity, and only if this aesthetic experience is instrumentalized for purposes of moral education.
Volume
12.1 (Spring/Printemps 2008)
Pages
29-43
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“Neculau's article 12.1,” Symposium, accessed April 29, 2024, http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/symposium/items/show/76.