Abstract
Part 1 Prolegomena to a Yeatsian metaphysic: mercury sublimate - gender, revolution and the Burkean sublime the smell of the fire - Kant, aesthetics, morality and culture - night or joy Yeats, the negative and positive sublime. Part 2 Ascending breathless starlit air - the beautiful and the positive sublime: eternal beauty - early transcendental aesthetics the labour to be beautiful - constructing an aesthetic living beauty - aesthetic accommodation of history and society the language of illusion Vision and the transcentental. Part 3 A dancer wound in his own entrails - the negative sublime: the frivolous eye - Yeatsian epiphany and the violence of God desire and the fascist dream - destructive/creative violence in society heart's victim and its torturer - wounds of the subject-object mystery. Part 4 Whence did all that fury come?: starlit air - the positive sublime the stream that's roaring by - the tragedy of history moving upon silence - alternating visions of sublimity.
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