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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

Name: A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
ISBN: 9780191567124

Edmund Burke, Adam Phillips

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An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today. "I'm gratified you're. keeping Burke's text on the Sublime available in an inexpensive edition. Thanks again for keeping it e. Read more... Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edmund Burke; BURKE'S Enquiry; THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; INTRODUCTION. On Taste; THE CONTENTS; Explanatory Notes

Categorie:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Anno:

1999

Casa editrice:

Oxford University Press

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

209

ISBN 10:

0191567124