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THE ECOLOGICAL SUBLIME

Summary/Abstract: Heath, duringhis second phase, set the reference procedures for the environmentally beneficial model of the sublime. It concerns the external object such as nature, which Kant, in his analysis of the sublime, excludes, defines as unnecessary and uncharacteristic of human reason, allowingonly those objects that function as stimuli to the human imagination or fantasy. Heath desires the meeting between the inner and the outer, to project the model of the ecological sublime, which in turn is set through the harmonious contact of reason and nature. The only thing Heath wants from Kant’s model is to preserve the category of transcendentalism, that is, to set up some kind of transcendence that would reconfigure the version of the sublime: the contact between subject and object / nature, where nature is transcendence itself and the highest force and place of the nominus. So, in support of Heath’s model of ecological aesthetics, the following formula is valid: nature, not the subject, has transcendental power. In order to prove his own model of ecological sublimity in a more convincing and clear fashion, Heath will turn to the American transcendentalists who were familiar with Kant’s theoretical assumptions: Emerson and Thoreau.

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