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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas: Burke's Classic Treatise on Beauty, Terror, Taste, and the Sublime
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PhilosophyGeneral EducationGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781617206320
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Feb 9 2012
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is Edmund Burke's classic eighteenth-century study of taste, beauty, terror, imagination, and aesthetic experience. Burke separates the beautiful from the sublime, arguing that beauty is associated with qualities such as smoothness, delicacy, harmony, and pleasure, while the sublime arises from vastness, obscurity, danger, power, terror, and the mind's response to overwhelming force. The result is one of the foundational texts in modern aesthetics and a major influence on later Romantic thought.
First published in 1756, with a substantially expanded second edition in 1757, Burke's Enquiry helped shift aesthetic theory away from purely classical rules and toward the psychological and emotional effects of art, nature, language, and perception. Project Gutenberg's text notes that the first edition appeared in 1756 and that the second edition, with large additions, appeared in 1757. For readers of philosophy, art theory, literary criticism, Romanticism, Gothic literature, eighteenth-century thought, and the history of ideas, this is a central work: short, forceful, provocative, and still useful for understanding why beauty pleases while the sublime overwhelms.
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