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The study deals with the relationship between the sense of sublime and ontology. In this study, it has been tried to make an examination between a concept from western history of philosophy and aesthetics -the concept of sublime- and its counterpart (if not so counterpart, but the possible idea that holds the essential meaning and experience of the sublime in its sense) within the East-Asian intellectual and cultural world namely, Kami (神). By this examination, it is aimed to enrichen the investigations within both comparative and fusion philosophy. In first chapter, the historical progress of the western sublime has been tracked and analyzed. Through the names like Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Lyotard and Derrida, the historical change of the notion of sublime in Western culture has been followed and investigated. Its aesthetical, political, ethical, metaphysical roots and connotations have been clarified within the examination. By doing this, the concept’s relation with the concepts like nature, the self, and the relation between nature and self are problematized and taken into consideration. The accounts of sublime regarding the idea of excess, transcendence, a sort of withdraw-repel relation have been criticized in order to understand the specific emphasizes on the notion during its historical changes. In the second chapter, Japanese religion Shinto and its effects on the Japanese aesthetics have been investigated. By this investigation, the meaning and usages of the belief kami (and its connotation within metaphysics and ontology) are deconstructed regarding the notion of sublime in Japanese cultural and intellectual world. Through some semantic, etymological and grammatical analyzes, the examination reaches to the point where the connection between the western sublime and Japanese kami has been cleared. In the conclusion, the phenomenality within Japanese aesthetics has been revealed through the interrelation between kami and sublime.

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