A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime & Beautiful by Edmund Burke, James T. Boulton

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime & Beautiful

Edmund Burke, James T. Boulton

197 pages • first pub 1757 (editions)

nonfiction art classics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 a...

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