A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and Beautiful: And Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke’s landmark philosophical enquiry into the sublime and the beautiful appears here with other pre-revolutionary writings. This Penguin Classics volume offers a focused introduction to Burke’s thought and to eighteenth-century debates about aesthetics, ideas, and intellectual culture.
About This Book
Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and Beautiful examines two influential concepts in philosophical aesthetics.
This Penguin Classics edition also brings together other writings from Burke’s pre-revolutionary period.
The volume offers readers an opportunity to explore Burke’s ideas and their place within eighteenth-century intellectual history.
It is suited to readers interested in philosophy, aesthetics, political thought, and the history of ideas.
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