Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction. Exiled from oneself: Art and Other Strange Migrations...
1. 'Contempt for the world': Kant's Aesthetics and the Sublime
2. 'A stranger to consciousness...': Lyotard and the Sublime
3. 'My whole structure of perception is in the process of exploding': Deleuze and Guattari and the Sublime
4. Framing the Abyss: the Deconstruction of the Sublime
5. For those who disagree: Rancière and the Sublime
Postscript: 'Art after experience': Speculative Realism and the Sublime
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Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna. He has published numerous essays on philosophy, art and cinema. He is the author of Art as Abstract Machine, Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor with Simon O'Sullivan of Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (Bloomsbury Academic, 2008).