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

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0192835807 ISBN13: 9780192835802 Release Date: November 1998 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 208 Pages Weight: 0.35 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 4.9" 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 literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today.