Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.

This new edition of The Sublime looks at:

• The legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the post-modern and avant-garde sublimity
• The major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and i ek, offering critical introductions to...