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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (The World's Classics)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - The World's Classics
Author: Edmund Burke, Adam Phillips
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 literatur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192818072
ISBN-10: 0192818074
Publication Date: 8/30/1990
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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