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  3. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2014
      January 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107360495
      9781108067201
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360495
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
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    By the eighteenth century, the term 'sublime' was used to communicate a sense of unfathomable and awe-inspiring greatness, whether in nature or thought. The relationship of sublimity to classical definitions of beauty was much debated, but the first philosopher to portray them as opposing forces was Edmund Burke (1729–97). Originally published in 1757 and reissued here in the revised second edition of 1759, this influential treatise explores the psychological origins of both ideas. Presented as distinct consequences of very separate emotional lineages, beauty and sublimity are traced back through a web of human feelings, from self-preservation instincts to lust. Burke's doctrine of the sublime was to have far-reaching effects. In Britain, it informed perceptions of landscape in art and literature for years to come. Meanwhile, on the continent, Kant regarded Burke as 'the foremost author' in 'the empirical exposition of aesthetic judgments'.

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