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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'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 prevaile ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Reflections on the Revolution in France By Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Ir ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings by Edmund Burke; Jesse Norman (Editor)
Category: History
"Amid the 18th century s golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke s controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects o ...Show more
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