His revolutions in method and sensibility influenced later philosophers and literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel to Romanticism and beyond. This new edition guides the reader through Burke's arguments.
Conservative Edmund Burke (1729-1777) was a British statesman, orator, and political writer. This comprehensive anthology provides authoritative insight into Burke's political life and philosophy.
This is the only available edition of the work.
Published in 1759, this is the second edition of an influential exploration of aesthetic taste by 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.
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful: with an introductory discourse concerning taste...
However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty and art form is now recognized as one of the first European works on the subject of the Sublime.