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{{short description|1991 book by Jean-François Lyotard}}
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| name             = Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
| title_orig       = Leçons sur l'Analytique du Sublime
| translator       = Elizabeth Rottenberg
| image            = File:Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, first edition.jpg
| caption          = Cover of the first edition
| author           = [[Jean-François Lyotard]]
| country          = France
| language         = French
| series           = Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
| subject          = ''[[Critique of Judgment]]''
| publisher        = [[Éditions Galilée]]
| publisher2       = [[Stanford University Press]]
| pub_date         = 1991
| english_pub_date = 1994
| media_type       = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages            = 264 (1994 Stanford University Press edition)
| isbn             = 978-0804722421
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'''''Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime''''' ({{langx|fr|Leçons sur l'Analytique du Sublime}}) is a 1991 book about the philosopher [[Immanuel Kant]]'s ''[[Critique of Judgment]]'' (1790), focusing on Kant's description of the [[sublime (philosophy)|sublime]], by the French philosopher [[Jean-François Lyotard]]. The book received positive reviews following the appearance of its English translation in 1994.
==Summary==
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Lyotard discusses the philosopher Immanuel Kant's ''Critique of Judgment'', focusing on Kant's description of the sublime.{{sfn|Lyotard|1994|pages=1–264}}
==Publication history==
''Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime'' was first published in 1991 by [[Éditions Galilée]]. In 1994, [[Stanford University Press]] published an English translation by Elizabeth Rottenberg as part of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics.{{sfn|Lyotard|1994|pages=iii–iv, vi}}
==Reception==
The book received positive reviews from Thomas Huhn in ''[[Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism]]'' and A. T. Nuyen in ''[[Philosophy of the Social Sciences (journal)|Philosophy of the Social Sciences]]''.{{sfn|Huhn|1995|pages=89–91}}{{sfn|Nuyen|1996|pages=557–572}} Huhn described the book as "brilliant", writing that Lyotard provided a "provocative reading of Kant's doctrine of the sublime".{{sfn|Huhn|1995|pages=89–91}} Nuyen credited Lyotard with providing a "close and careful" discussion of portions of the ''Critique of Judgment''.{{sfn|Nuyen|1996|pages=557–572}}
Peter Fenves praised Lyotard for posing the "question of the subject of aesthetic judgment" with "renewed vigor".{{sfn|Fenves|1994|pages=65–82}} The philosopher Alan D. Schrift suggested that ''Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime'' is Lyotard's most important work since ''[[The Differend]]'' (1983).{{sfn|Schrift|2017|page=619}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Lyotard|first1=Jean-François |title=Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |location=Stanford, California |year=1994 |isbn=978-0804722421 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Schrift|first1=Alan D. |chapter=Lyotard, Jean-François |editor-last1=Audi|editor-first1=Robert |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-107-64379-6 }}
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* {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Fenves|first1=Peter |journal=[[Eighteenth-Century Studies]] |volume=28 |issue=1 |year=1994 |doi=10.2307/2739224 |jstor=2739224}}
* {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Huhn|first1=Thomas |journal=[[The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism]] |volume=53 |issue=1 |year=1995 }} {{subscription required|via=[https://www.ebsco.com EBSCO]'s Academic Search Complete}}
* {{cite journal |title=Book reviews |last1=Nuyen|first1=A. T. |journal=[[Philosophy of the Social Sciences (journal)|Philosophy of the Social Sciences]] |volume=26 |issue=4 |year=1996 |doi=10.1177/004839319602600406 }}
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