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- Title
On Grief: an Aesthetic Defense.
- Authors
STRADELLA, ALESSANDRA
- Abstract
In Burke's Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, the passion of grief yields a fascinating case of pleasurable pain: it is a state of pain resulting from the absolute cessation of pleasure, yet somehow still ensuring a peculiar form of pleasure, which justifies one's lingering on grief Different from any positive pleasure, grief is also unlike any other positive pain, for its pain is the outcome of a "lost pleasure." It is my contention that Burke;s intuition is a viable hypothesis on the nature of grief. On the path opened up by Burke, what follows is a defense of grief as an aesthetic emotion and emotional process. My claim is that grief belongs to the sphere of the sublime and its "delightful terror." My aim is to suggest an aesthetic reading of grief able to transcend the normal/pathological distinctions of the therapeutic school.
- Publication
Philosophical Practice: Journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (American Philosophical Practitioners Association), 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p803
- ISSN
1742-8173
- Publication type
Academic Journal