A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke, Adam Phillips

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

Edmund Burke, Adam Phillips

208 pages • first pub 1757 (view 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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