Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
A terrible prospect -- Terror, terrorism and the sublime -- Kant and the unfair sex -- Kant's Orientalism : Islam, 'race' and ethnicity -- Egypt, parerga and a question of veils -- Ourself behind ourself, concealed -- Antinomies of the female -- Nietzsche and the genealogy of the sublime -- Nietzsche's naked goddess : reconfiguring the sublime -- Terror now and then