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“Gender, Race, and” this concept subtitle Meg Armstrong’s essay “The Effects of Blackness,” which describes how an earlier philosopher illustrated it with the example of a white man meeting a Black woman. Elaine Sisman argued that Mozart’s Jupiter symphony evokes a type of this concept using the “learned style.” This concept produces an “ontological dislocation” that makes us feel the differend, according to a book in which Lyotard close-reads Kant. The first volume of The World as Will and Representation lists (*) “light reflected off stones” as (10[1])the lowest of five types of this concept. The earliest known treatise on this concept quotes Sappho 31 and is attributed to Longinus. Friedrich’s Wanderer (10[1])Above the Sea of Fog is often (10[1])used to illustrate how the power of nature can create this terrifying experience. For 10 points, Edmund Burke contrasted beauty with what awe-inspiring concept? ■END■

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