A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful
Ranked #25 in Aesthetics
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... more
'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... more
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