Karoline Gritzner (Graz): „Aesthetics of the Sublime in Contemporary Theatre“
Vortrag vom 10. Dezember 2024 When the sublime became a category of art (in post-Kantian aesthetic theories), the problem of representation came to be reassessed and the category of the beautiful expanded. Modern theories of the sublime (e.g. Adorno and Lyotard) emphasise the process of de-subjectification in aesthetic experience and criticize of the rational control of nature. In this lecture, I question to what extent contemporary theatre may enable a thinking that approaches the philosophical-aesthetic […]