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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste, and Several Other Additions (Classic Reprint) by Edmund Burke

birdbeakbeast's review against another edition

2.0

I think Burke and Freud would be very good friends indeed. If I was not hindered by Burke's negative stance towards women (who are weak, and serve only the purpose of beauty) and animals ( "I have more than once observed in dogs ... that they have writhed their bodeis, and yelped, and howled, as if they had actually felt the blows."), the score would have ranged between 3-4; for his ideas applied to art and literature are doable (although I object to his arguments against proportion as a characteristic of beauty).