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

By: Burke, Edmund.
Contributor(s): Guyer,Paul [ed.].
Series: Oxford world's classics.Publisher: 2015 Oxford University Press, OxfordDescription: xliv, 154 p.; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199668717.Subject(s): Aesthetics | Early works to 1800DDC classification: 111.85 Summary: 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.
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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.

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