The Possibility of the Sublime
After Professor Jane Forsey argued that a theory of the sublime is impossible, this volume gathers international scholars to challenge her claim. In a tightly focused debate, they defend the sublime as an aesthetic category, concluding with a final response from Forsey herself.
Our lives are a mosaic of routine practices. But what must we know to accomplish them? This book proposes six bodies of knowledge and skill—from affordances to causes—that explain the hidden architecture of our everyday actions, each introduced in its own chapter.