“The monstrous threatens to destroy us by robbing us of the upward and downward orientation necessary to stand upright, by pulling the ground from under our feet and thus thwarting the enormous self-confidence which, according to Kant, is the […] essence of sublimity.”
33 Schmitz, “Das Ganz-Andere”, 422. “The monstrous threatens to destroy us by robbing us of the upward and downward orientation necessary to stand upright, by pulling the ground from under our feet and thus thwarting the enormous self-confidence which, according to Kant, is the […] essence of sublimity.”