My very first publication, written almost ten years ago now, was on the concept of the sublime in philosophical aesthetics. What is the sublime? Probably everybody old enough to have refined aesthetic experiences will know what it feels like, even if they don’t know its name. It’s the sense of being wondrously overwhelmed by theContinue reading “The sublime – and the Artemis Space Program”
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Philosophy and place
The connection between philosophy and place is an important one, particularly for biographical sketches of great philosophers: Epicurus in his garden; Diogenes in his barrel; Nietzsche in Sils Maria, and so on. The connection between the two is occasionally more than just aesthetic, as these examples illustrate: a place can also cut to the heartContinue reading “Philosophy and place”
Lewis Coyne 