The sublime: from word to silence
Waldir BARRETO
Original title: Lo sublime, de la palabra al silencio
Published in Pleasure in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Beautiful, Imagination, Reason, Sublime, Understanding, Unrepresentable.
This essay presents a didactic and expositive approach the historical-philosophical deployment of the sublime’s concept since the retrieval of the term, according to its translation of the Greek into French, until the reinstatement of meaning, according to its shift from rhetoric to philosophy, through Anglo-Saxon valuation of the imagination, the birth of Aesthetics, philosophical premise, Burke’s key of terror and his distinction between pleasure and delight, the game of faculties in Kant, and the characterization of the radical informality of the sublime.
When everything would appear to man as it is – infinite, from Kant to Viola (1781-1983)
Waldir BARRETO
Original title: Quando tudo pareceria ao homem tal como é – infinito, de Kant a Viola (1781-1983)
Published in The World of Tradition
Keywords: Art, Bergson, Infinite, Kant, Sublime, Video, Viola.
This essay proposes a theoretical consideration about the possibility of a transcendental analysis of the aesthetic experience with art according to Kantian criticism and the temporal dimension of Bill Viola’s work, taken from the Bergsonian concept of duration.
