| A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and Beautiful Contributor(s): Burke, Edmund (Author) |
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ISBN: 1495274152 ISBN-13: 9781495274152 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | Study & Teaching |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.50 lbs) 164 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Edmund Burke's 1757 treatise, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful," is a clearly written, well-argued, and variously inflected work of philosophy. Coming out of and contending with the traditions of philosophies of passion, understanding, and aesthetics from Aristotle and Longinus to Descartes, Hobbes to Locke, and Shaftesbury to Hume, Burke would seem to be taking on a world of difficulty at the tender age of 28. However, Burke manages to maintain control and exercise great wit in his treatise by confining his "Enquiry" to the ways we interact with the physical world, and how in this interaction, we formulate our aesthetic ideas of sublimity and beauty. |