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Art, Terrorism and the Negative Sublime
- Author(s):
- Arnold Berleant (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Terrorism--Social aspects, Aesthetics, Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, Aesthetics--Philosophy, Politics and government, Political science
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- negative aesthetics, the sublime, terror, Happenings, Sociology of terrorism, Immanuel Kant, Aesthetic theory, Politics, Political theory
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6VQ2S91X
- Abstract:
- As the range of the aesthetic has expanded to cover not only a wider range of objects and situations of daily life but to encompass the negative. This includes terrorism, whose aesthetic impact is central to its use as a political tactic. The complex of positive and negative aesthetic values in terrorism are explored, introducing the concept of the sublime as a negative category to illuminate the analysis and the distinctive aesthetic of terrorism.
- Notes:
- "Art, Terrorism, and the Negative Sublime,” in Arts and Terror ed. V. L. Marchenkov (Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2014), pp. 1-15. Reprinted in Artenol, Winter 2016, 24-31. Published in Arnold Berleant, Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2010), Ch. 10. Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 7 (2009).
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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