Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future : towards an aesthetics of the future

Tracks the sublime art movement from Kant to the 21st century and onwards to a new future Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement. With it, a visionary politics of art seeks to give it the most creative power possible: the power to overcome our conditions and embrace the unknown. Key Features Constructs a contemporary aesthetics of the sublime from the work of some of the most significant philosophers of the last 40 years Traces a new genealogy of post-war art that dissolves the modern/postmodern rupture Connects this sublime diagram of art with the emergence of a new future Explores how aesthetic production directly challenges our contemporary biopolitical conditions