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This paper aims to reveal that the unique aesthetic resource in modern times is the sublime, but that today it does not function positively any longer. To achieve this, the end of modernity is taken as a viewpoint. The end of modernity as a viewpoint enables us to see the reversal in the origin of modernity. Modern Capitalism brought about a radical reversal in how value is viewed. Everything could be bought and sold in market by and for money. This was a shocking experience to early modern men. Philosophers and writers were compelled to try to find a new aesthetic, emotional resource. Burke found it first, and it was the sublime. He distinguished it from the beautiful, and made it available as a new aesthetic resource. The sublime was supported in literature by an institution: the unity of speech and writing. The same institution was invented in painting in the form of perspective. Perspective made viewing and painting unified. This institution gave birth to landscape as the necessary condition of the sublime. The sublime as an aesthetic resource in turn supported the imagined community in modern times. This was the political function of the sublime, and it does not function any longer today. We should be able to understand what Karatani called “the end of modern literature” also as the end of modernity itself. It means that we should find another aesthetic resource for our future. This new aesthetic resource will make us encounter the real world beyond the imagined community. It is the function of the beautiful.
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Sublime, Landscape, Imagined Community, Unity Of Speech And Writing, Kojin Karatani
