A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Burke, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192835807 ISBN 13: 9780192835802

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Edited by Adam Phillips, Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London

Review:

"I'm gratified you're keeping Burke's text on the Sublime available in an inexpensive edition. Thanks again for keeping it easily accessible. It is a major document not only for the post-modern and avant-garde discussion of the sublime, but also for gender theory."--Leonard L. Duroche, University of Minnesota

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192835807
• ISBN 13: 9780192835802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Phillips Adam