…The sublime feeling mere pleasure taste – a mixture pleasure pain — Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations Law Form (Wellek Library Lectures

Jean-François Lyotard Peregrinations Law Form (Wellek Library Lectures

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…The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain… Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or tooviolent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations Law Form (Wellek Library Lectures

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