A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Couverture souple

Burke, Edmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1420933698 ISBN 13 : 9781420933697

Editeur : Digireads.com, 2009

Synopsis

First written in 1757, this treatise on aesthetics provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. This is apparent in Burke's ultimate preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful, for he defined the latter as that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing and the former as that which has the power to compel or destroy mankind. Within this text, Burke also posits that the origin of these ideas comes by way of their causal structures, utilizing Aristotelian concepts to fully explore his ideas. He is original in conceiving of beauty outside of its traditional bases and in seeing the sublime as having an entirely separate causal structure, which he outlines in depth. In putting the beautiful and the sublime in their own rational categories, Burke's treatise displays the expansive thinking unique to the turbulent times in which he lived.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Digireads.com
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1420933698
• ISBN 13: 9781420933697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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