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

Edmund Burke

Verlag: St. Andrew's University Press; R. Tullis, Cupar; Edinburgh, 1822

Burke's important essay on aesthetics, a literary precursor to the Romantic era. An important essay on aesthetics by Edmund Burke.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.This treatise was the first complete philosophical work separating and defining the beautiful and the sublime. In the essay Burke holds a preference for the Sublime, rather than Beautiful, an important step which heralded the transition from the Neoclassical era to the Romantic.Burke's essay was influential, with admirers being Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.This was Burke's only purely philosophical work, as an economist and Whig M.P. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss of paper to the joints. Label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spotting. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 926P50

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of ...
Verlag: St. Andrew's University Press; R. Tullis, Cupar; Edinburgh
Erscheinungsdatum: 1822
Einband: Hardback
Illustrator: Not Stated
Zustand: Good
Art des Buches: book