Tuesday, December 6, 2016

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Sublime and Beautiful

Today we got in a 5th edition of Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" from 1772. This was the first complete philosophical work contemplating the separation of the sublime and beautiful into their own respective categories. This was a very controversial work, and was commented on by Immanuel Kant and drew the attention of Denis Diderot.



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