A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke

92 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction art classics philosophy reflective slow-paced

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First written in 1757, this treatise on aesthetics provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. This is apparent in Burke's ultimate preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful, for he defined the latter as that which is wel...

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