Why do we feel awe and the sublime? … comic amusement? How have such emotions been theorized in philosophy and other disciplines?
Robert Clewis is an author and scholar living between Philadelphia and Europe.
He is the author of The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) and editor of Reading Kant’s Lectures (Walter de Gruyter, 2015). He recently edited the first comprehensive, historical anthology on the sublime, The Sublime Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is a contributing translator in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).
He has been a visiting scholar at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019/20 he is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt.
His work has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers and he was awarded the Wilfrid Sellars prize of the North American Kant Society. He has written numerous articles and chapters on aesthetics and Kant’s wider philosophy. He is recipient of the Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His work has most recently been supported by a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom
Reading Kant’s Lectures
The Sublime Reader
Kant’s Humorous Writings
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