Bogdana Paskaleva

INVERSION
INSTITUTION
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
ORCID ID
0000-0002-4311-701X
WEB OF SCIENCE RESEARCHER ID
ID: AAH-7552-2019
COUNTRY
Bulgaria

Богдана Паскалева (1986) е доктор по теория на литературата (2015) и главен асистент в СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“ по дисциплините „Антична и средновековна литература“ и „Западноевропейска литература“ (2017). Интересите ѝ са свързани с литературата и културата на Античността и Европейския ренесанс. Защитава докторат на тема „Образ, подобие и символ при Николай Кузански“. Автор е на статии и студии в областта на литературознанието, античната и ренесансова литература, култура и философия, а също и преводач на ренесансови текстове, най-вече от латински и италиански език.

THE SUBLIME – CONCEPTUALIZATION AND RE-CONCEPTUALIZATION

07/05/2023

Bogdana Paskaleva

Duality and the Sublime: Burke Read by Kovachev

  • ABSTRACT

    The current text is dedicated to the interpretation of Ognyan Kovachev on Edmund Burke’s treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”. This interpretation is to be found in Kovachev’s preface to the first Bulgarian edition of the treatise of 2001, as well as parts of the monograph “The Gothic Novel” (2004). We interpret Kovachev’s introduction to Burke not only in its didactic and propaedeutic dimensions – as a text that introduces the Bulgarian public to the problems of a hitherto unknown author within the framework of its broad cultural, historical and philosophical context (the 18th century), but in view of the specific interpretation of Burke’s aesthetics, offered by Kovachev. The study claims that Kovachev reads Burke through the problem of doubling and duality. At the same time, for Kovachev, Burke’s doubling functions not as a subversive element in the logic of the philosophical exposition, but rather as a constitutive moment of the aesthetic subject of Modern age. The latter is related to the genre of the gothic novel and its interpretation in Kovachev’s monograph on this type of novel.