Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486461661
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This eloquent 1757 treatise on aesthetics explores how interactions with the physical world affect the formulation of ideals related to beauty and art. Edmund Burke's landmark study not only proved tremendously influential on the development of aesthetic theory, but also offered the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. The beautiful, according to Burke, comprises that which is well formed and aesthetically pleasing. The sublime, on the other hand, possesses the power to compel and destroy. This distinction bears a noteworthy historical relevance, since the popular preference for the sublime rather than the beautiful indicates the transition from the Neoclassical to the Romantic era. Burke's dissertation is both a precursor of his later political writings and one of the first major works in European literature to explore the concept of the sublime—a topic as fascinating to eighteenth-century thinkers as it is to modern philosophers and critics.
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0191605654
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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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 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. This is the only available edition of the work.
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9781985098626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers ... It includes several other additions by. Edmund Burke, such as: 1. Novelty. 2. Pain and Pleasure. 3. The Difference Between the Removal of Pain, and. Positive Pleasure. 4. Of Delight and Pleasure...
A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135246203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burke’s subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime"—an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke’s essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary. Edmund Burke (1729–1797). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived during a turbulent time in world history, which saw revolutions in America and France that inspired his most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Burke's Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifu
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9781986213516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: Burke proposes that beauty stimulates love, but that the sublime excites horror. While beauty relaxes, the sublime brings tension. The feeling that something is sublime is triggered by extremes - vastness, extreme height, difficulty, darkness or excessive light. When discussing infinity, Burke uses the phrase 'delightful horror' to describe the 'truest test of the sublime'. Delight for Burke is the removal of pain. When we realise that horror portrayed in the arts is fictional, this allows us to experience pleasure. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund Burke