Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
{{short description|1991 book by Jean-François Lyotard}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
| title_orig = Leçons sur l'Analytique du Sublime
| translator = Elizabeth Rottenberg
| image = File:Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, first edition.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = Jean-François Lyotard
| country = France
| language = French
| series = Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
| subject = Critique of Judgment
| publisher = Éditions Galilée
| publisher2 = Stanford University Press
| pub_date = 1991
| english_pub_date = 1994
| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
| pages = 264 (1994 Stanford University Press edition)
| isbn = 978-0804722421
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime ({{langx|fr|Leçons sur l'Analytique du Sublime}}) is a 1991 book about the philosopher Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790), focusing on Kant's description of the sublime, by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The book received positive reviews following the appearance of its English translation in 1994.
Summary
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Lyotard discusses the philosopher Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, focusing on Kant's description of the sublime.{{sfn|Lyotard|1994|pages=1–264}}
Publication history
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime was first published in 1991 by Éditions Galilée. In 1994, Stanford University Press published an English translation by Elizabeth Rottenberg as part of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics.{{sfn|Lyotard|1994|pages=iii–iv, vi}}
Reception
The book received positive reviews from Thomas Huhn in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and A. T. Nuyen in Philosophy of the Social Sciences.{{sfn|Huhn|1995|pages=89–91}}{{sfn|Nuyen|1996|pages=557–572}} Huhn described the book as "brilliant", writing that Lyotard provided a "provocative reading of Kant's doctrine of the sublime".{{sfn|Huhn|1995|pages=89–91}} Nuyen credited Lyotard with providing a "close and careful" discussion of portions of the Critique of Judgment.{{sfn|Nuyen|1996|pages=557–572}}
Peter Fenves praised Lyotard for posing the "question of the subject of aesthetic judgment" with "renewed vigor".{{sfn|Fenves|1994|pages=65–82}} The philosopher Alan D. Schrift suggested that Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime is Lyotard's most important work since The Differend (1983).{{sfn|Schrift|2017|page=619}}
References
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=Bibliography=
Books
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- {{cite book |last1=Lyotard|first1=Jean-François |title=Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, California |year=1994 |isbn=978-0804722421 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Schrift|first1=Alan D. |chapter=Lyotard, Jean-François |editor-last1=Audi|editor-first1=Robert |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-107-64379-6 }}
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Journals
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- {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Fenves|first1=Peter |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |volume=28 |issue=1 |year=1994 |doi=10.2307/2739224 |jstor=2739224}}
- {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Huhn|first1=Thomas |journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |volume=53 |issue=1 |year=1995 }} {{subscription required|via=[https://www.ebsco.com EBSCO]'s Academic Search Complete}}
- {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Nuyen|first1=A. T. |journal=Philosophy of the Social Sciences |volume=26 |issue=4 |year=1996 |doi=10.1177/004839319602600406 }}
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