A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke

154 pages first pub 1757 (editions)

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Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's 'Enquiry', focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche.

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