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What is sublime?

>> No.17464710

>>17464683
Read Burke.

>> No.17464714

Sublime was an American reggae rock and ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

>> No.17464733

>>17464683
the sense of Awe you experience when in contact with something which is beyond your little ego and your little problems.

>> No.17464736

>>17464714
Thank you, this is actually the only thing I'll learn from this thread.

>> No.17464982

>>17464683
A mix of beauty and fear.

>> No.17465020

>>17464683
read kant on judgement

>> No.17465045

>>17464683
This video

https://youtu.be/R_2HHmiZk-g

>> No.17465061

>>17465045
the absolute state of these people, may Vishnu or whatever imaginary god they believe in help them

>> No.17465075

>>17465061
What's wrong with collective spirit bro?

>> No.17465085

>>17465075
It's the fact that they're Indian that bothers me

>> No.17465086

>>17464683
Not practicing santeria.
Not having a crystal ball.
Having a million dollars and spending it all.

>> No.17465205

Yeah, read Longinus, Burke, Kant and Lyotard

>> No.17465239

>>17464683
it's a bit like lime
only a bit less

>> No.17465372

different meaning in every era and nation

>> No.17466176

>>17464683
EVROPA

>> No.17466188

>>17464683
Are you looking for an experience of the sublime? Literature that evokes or achieves sublimity? Discourses or books about the sublime?

>> No.17466381

>>17464683
18th century British aesthetics philosophy will enlighten you, anon.
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=35986B4DF46959F071D7CFEF0CFD78AE

>> No.17467819

>>17464683
The font from which all beauty and truth flows that we can only glimpse for mere moments. A sort of shimmering terrible power that moves behind all reality, an endless crescendo of being that eternally radiating through all things. That which is totally beyond all rational conceptions of the world, all intelligibility, a dreadful overwhelming and fountain of numinous experience.