The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming work, “Essay on the Sublime”, in which I attempt to reconceptualise an ancient idea. Its bold thesis is that, far from an aesthetic incident, the Sublime is art’s very ‘telos'.
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Hegel and the German Idealists
At the turn of the 19th century, a group of German philosophers would take changes in epistemology set in motion by Immanuel Kant, and lay them at the foundation of a bold new way of doing metaphysics. These were the so-called Idealists.