A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burke, Edmund 1729-1797 (Author)
Other Authors: Phillips, Adam 1954- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a] Oxford University Press 1990
Series:Oxford world's classics
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
DE-188
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173)
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 173 S.)
ISBN:9780191567124

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