Robert Doran is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature (2016) and the editor of three books: Philosophy of History after Hayden White (2013), Hayden White's The Fiction of Narrative (2010), and René Girard's Mimesis and Theory (2008). Professor Doran holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, California and a PhD in General and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III.
Introduction
Part I. Longinus' Theory of Sublimity: 1. Defining the Longinian sublime
2. Longinus' five sources sublimity
3. Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture
Part II. Sublimity and Modernity: 4. Boileau: the birth of a concept
5. Dennis: terror and religion
6. Burke: sublime individualism
Part III. The Sublimity of the Mind: Kant: 7. The Kantian sublime in 1764: 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime'
8. The sublime in the 'Critique of Practical Reason'
9. The sublime in the 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'
10. Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime
11. Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime
12. Sublimity and culture in Kant.
