Robert Clewis teaches philosophy at Gwynedd Mercy University. His books include The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (2009) and The Sublime Reader (2018).

Written by Robert Clewis

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Is the sublime a hopelessly old-fashioned Euro-Romantic ideal?

The sublime is not only for the Romantics, nor just about gender or overcoming nature. It’s in the thrills-and-chills of emotion

by Robert Clewis