{"product_id":"a-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-origin-of-our-ideas-of-the-sublime-and-beautiful-with-an-introductory-discourse-concerning-taste-and-several-other-additions-paperback-9781108067201","title":"A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful; With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Other Additions (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108067201","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWith an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Other Additions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1759, this is the second edition of an influential exploration of aesthetic taste by Edmund Burke (1729–97).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdmund Burke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108067201, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBy 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'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Novelty\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pain and pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 3. The difference between the removal of pain and positive pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of delight and pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 5. Joy and grief\u003cbr\u003e 6. Of the passions which belong to self-preservation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of the sublime\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of the passions which belong to society\u003cbr\u003e 9. The final cause of the difference between the passions\u003cbr\u003e 10. Of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 11. Society and solitude\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sympathy, imitation and ambition\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sympathy\u003cbr\u003e 14. The effects of sympathy in the distresses of others\u003cbr\u003e 15. Of the effects of tragedy\u003cbr\u003e 16. Imitation\u003cbr\u003e 17. Ambition\u003cbr\u003e 18. Recapitulation\u003cbr\u003e 19. The conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 1. Of the passion caused by the sublime\u003cbr\u003e 2. Terror\u003cbr\u003e 3. Obscurity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of the difference between clearness and obscurity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Power\u003cbr\u003e 6. Privation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Vastness\u003cbr\u003e 8. Infinity\u003cbr\u003e 9. The fame\u003cbr\u003e 10. Succession and uniformity\u003cbr\u003e 11. The effect of uniformity in building\u003cbr\u003e 12. Magnitude in building\u003cbr\u003e 13. Infinity in pleasing objects\u003cbr\u003e 14. Difficulty\u003cbr\u003e 15. Magnificence\u003cbr\u003e 16. Light\u003cbr\u003e 17. Light in building\u003cbr\u003e 18. Colour considered as productive of the sublime\u003cbr\u003e [18.] Sound and loudness\u003cbr\u003e 19. Suddenness\u003cbr\u003e 20. Intermitting\u003cbr\u003e 21. The cries of animals\u003cbr\u003e 23. Smell and taste\u003cbr\u003e 24. Feeling, pain\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 1. Of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 2. Proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetables\u003cbr\u003e 3. Proportion not the cause of beauty in animals\u003cbr\u003e 4. Proportion not the cause of beauty in the human species\u003cbr\u003e 5. Proportion further considered\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fitness not the cause of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 7. The real effects of fitness\u003cbr\u003e 8. The recapitulation\u003cbr\u003e 9. Perfection not the cause of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 10. How far the idea of beauty may be applied\u003cbr\u003e 11. How far the ideas of beauty may be applied to virtue\u003cbr\u003e 12. The real cause of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 13. Beautiful objects small\u003cbr\u003e 14. Smoothness\u003cbr\u003e 15. Gradual variation\u003cbr\u003e 16. Delicacy\u003cbr\u003e 17. Beauty in colour\u003cbr\u003e 18. Recapitulation\u003cbr\u003e 19. The physiognomy\u003cbr\u003e 20. The eye\u003cbr\u003e 21. Ugliness\u003cbr\u003e 22. Grace\u003cbr\u003e 23. Elegance and speciousness\u003cbr\u003e 24. The beautiful in feeling\u003cbr\u003e 25. The beautiful in sounds\u003cbr\u003e 26. Taste and smell\u003cbr\u003e 27. The sublime and beautiful compared\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: 1. Of the efficient cause of the sublime and beautiful\u003cbr\u003e 2. Association\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cause of pain and fear\u003cbr\u003e 4. Continued\u003cbr\u003e 5. How the sublime is produced\u003cbr\u003e 6. How pain can be a cause of delight\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exercise necessary for the finer organs\u003cbr\u003e 8. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like terror\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why visual subjects of great dimensions are sublime\u003cbr\u003e 10. Unity why requisite to vastness\u003cbr\u003e 11. The artificial infinite\u003cbr\u003e 12. The vibrations must be similar\u003cbr\u003e 13. The effects of succession in visual objects explained\u003cbr\u003e 14. Locke's opinion concerning darkness considered\u003cbr\u003e 15. Darkness terrible in its own nature\u003cbr\u003e 16. Why darkness is terrible\u003cbr\u003e 17. The effects of blackness\u003cbr\u003e 18. The effects of blackness moderated\u003cbr\u003e 19. The physical cause of love\u003cbr\u003e 20. Why smoothness is beautiful\u003cbr\u003e 21. Sweetness, its nature\u003cbr\u003e 22. Sweetness relaxing\u003cbr\u003e 23. Variation, why beautiful\u003cbr\u003e 24. Concerning smallness\u003cbr\u003e 25. Of colour\u003cbr\u003e Part V: 1. Of words\u003cbr\u003e 2. The common effect of poetry\u003cbr\u003e 3. General words before ideas\u003cbr\u003e 4. The effect of words\u003cbr\u003e 5. Examples that words may affect without raising images\u003cbr\u003e 6. Poetry not strictly an imitative art\u003cbr\u003e 7. 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