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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

By Edmund Burke

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'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 century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, natur...Show more

Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
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Philosophy: aesthetics

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9780199668717

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Oxford University Press

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2015

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

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