Sinossi
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- Pagine: 200
- Data di uscita: 01-10-2002
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An interesting early essay by the father of modern conservatism on the sublime and beautiful and how they differ. Thoughtful and occasionally entertaining. The 18th century prose--like most 18th century prose--is excellent.
An elegant work that expresses in words feelings and emotions that you knew but could never quite articulate.
I didn’t completely agree with the ideas in this booke, but I rate it five stars because it made me think and it showed me ways of seeing that I didn’t notice before. He must have been quite the extrovert personality type, because he entirely associated the sublime and beautiful with external object Leggi tutto
I read Frankenstein side by side and it was fun looking at the parallels. Mary Shelley made perfect application of Burke's theory on the workings of passions related to sublime. The essays will be brooding for a reader, maybe give certain amusing insights, but to a writer alone they're of any real v Leggi tutto
Some words that come to mind when describing this book are: eloquent, overwhelming, thought-provoking, confusing, and "what have I just read?" On face value, the author seems to be merely defining and distinguishing the words, beautiful and sublime. The title is pretty self-explanatory and the book
As evident from the title of the book, Burke questions and interprets the Sublime and Beautiful. Namely, how it affects the individual, and possible reasons for the consequent feelings. This latter point, in my opinion, is where Burke starts to think much more as Psychologist, and begins to link the Leggi tutto
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If you are into philosophy enough to find this obscure book on your own then you probably would be better off not reading it. It is a very well written, very well thought out work, but at points can be extremely repetitive and short.There are sections where you would hope that Burke would go into va Leggi tutto
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? This was supposed to be a book about aesthetics, but it ended up being a book about Edmund Burke's own little deeply subjective analysis of his own aesthetic tastes and preferences. Its amazing how little in this can be universalized and yet how confidently it Leggi tutto
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