A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

On the Sublime and Beautiful
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.
AuthorEdmund Burke
Original titleA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Publication date
1757, 2nd edition 1759
Publication placeGreat Britain
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.


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