A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
- Responsibility
- Edmund Burke ; edited with an introduction and notes by Adam Phillips.
- Digital
- data file.
- Imprint
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 (1998 printing)
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 173 pages).
- Series
- Oxford world's classics.
Online
Available online
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Contributor
- Phillips, Adam, 1954-
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173).
- Contents
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- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edmund Burke; BURKE'S Enquiry; THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; INTRODUCTION. On Taste; THE CONTENTS; Explanatory Notes.
- Summary
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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.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1990
- Series
- Oxford World's classics
- ISBN
- 9780191567124 (electronic bk.)
- 0191567124 (electronic bk.)
