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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (Oxford World's Classics)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Edmund Burke
'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth cen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199668717
ISBN-10: 019966871X
Publication Date: 1/8/2015
Pages: 208
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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