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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Release: November 19, 1998

ISBN: 0192835807

ISBN 13: 9780192835802

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Release: November 19, 1998

ISBN: 0192835807

ISBN 13: 9780192835802

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