Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future

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Tracks the sublime art movement from Kant to the 21st century and onwards to a new future Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement. With it, a visionary politics of art seeks to give it the most creative power possible: the power to overcome our conditions and embrace the unknown.Key FeaturesConstructs a contemporary aesthetics of the sublime from the work of some of the most significant philosophers of the last 40 yearsTraces a new genealogy of post-war art that dissolves the modern/postmodern ruptureConnects this sublime diagram of art with the emergence of a new futureExplores how aesthetic production directly challenges our contemporary biopolitical conditions