A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Softcover

Burke III, Edmund

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9780486461663: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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ISBN 10: 0486461661 ISBN 13: 9780486461663

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2008

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This eloquent 1757 treatise examines how interactions with the physical world affect formulation of ideals related to beauty and art. Tremendously influential on the development of aesthetic theory, this formative dissertation was among the first explorations of the concept of the sublime and remains a thought-provoking study for modern readers.

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Edmund Burke, III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of "Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History" by Marshall G.S. Hodgson (1993) and co-editor (with Ira Lapidus) of "Islam, Politics, and Social Movements" (California, 1988).

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