A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke with Paul Guyer (Contributor)

198 pages • first pub 1757 (editions)

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In his Enquiry Edmund Burke overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics and replaced metaphysics with psychology. His revolutions in method and sensibility influenced later philosophers and literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel...

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