Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

Publication history

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime was first published in 1991 by Éditions Galilée. In 1994, Stanford University Press published an English translation by Elizabeth Rottenberg as part of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics.

Reception

The book received positive reviews from Thomas Huhn in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and A. T. Nuyen in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Huhn described the book as "brilliant", writing that Lyotard provided a "provocative reading of Kant's doctrine of the sublime". Nuyen credited Lyotard with providing a "close and careful" discussion of portions of the Critique of Judgment.

Peter Fenves praised Lyotard for posing the "question of the subject of aesthetic judgment" with "renewed vigor". The philosopher Alan D. Schrift suggested that Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime is Lyotard's most important work since The Differend (1983).