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Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'â The Guardian

Edmund Burkeâs A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of the beautiful, Burkeâs subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as the sublimeâan all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burkeâs essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.

Edmund Burke (1729â1797). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780415453264, 978-0415453264
      ISBN10: 0415453267
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

      'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'â The Guardian

      Edmund Burkeâs A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of the beautiful, Burkeâs subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as the sublimeâan all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burkeâs essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.

      Edmund Burke (1729â1797). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived

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