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

(Oxford World's Classics)

By Edmund Burke

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| Paperback | 9780192835802

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Book Description

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also oneContinue

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Basic concepts on Art and our way of reaching it and feeling it.

Burke explains how sensation, imagination, and judgment determine the experience of pleasure and pain, and how pleasure and pain are represented by the aesthetic concepts of beauty and sublimity.
With this book I have learnt some ideas about the humain way of feeling the experience of Art:
1.-you ar ... (continue)

Burke explains how sensation, imagination, and judgment determine the experience of pleasure and pain, and how pleasure and pain are represented by the aesthetic concepts of beauty and sublimity.
With this book I have learnt some ideas about the humain way of feeling the experience of Art:
1.-you arrive to pleasure in different ways: delight (removal of pain and indifference), or joy (grows by him self).
2.-You arrive to pain because the want of indifference or pleasure.
3.-Pain may be a more powerful emotion than pleasure.
4.-Sublime is the cause of the strongest emotions which the individual is capable of feeling. In its highest degree may cause total astonishment.
5.-Beauty is not necessary perfectly simetric, and transmits admiration, respect and love.
TO CONCLUDE:
the reason why a great work of Art is so inspiring is because it is not merely beautiful, but sublime.

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