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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 (15[1])as Will and Representation lists (*) “light reflected off stones” as the lowest of five (10[1])types of this concept. The earliest known treatise on this concept quotes Sappho 31 and is attributed to Longinus. (10[2])Friedrich’s (10[1])Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is often 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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