{"product_id":"edmund-burke-a-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-origin-of-our-ideas-of-the-sublime-and-beautiful-9780268000851","title":"Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eEnquiry--\u003c\/i\u003ewhich has been described as \"certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced\"--the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful, ' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing sensibility of his time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction traces the main sources of Burke's ideas and establishes the nature of his originality. The largest section of the editor's introduction, however, examines the influence of the \u003ci\u003eEnquiry\u003c\/i\u003e. Major writers like Johnson, Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy, painters such as Fuseli and Mortimer, and critics such as Diderot, Lessing and Kant, as well as many other minor figures, recognized Burke's new insights, and in varying degrees assimilated them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition, revised by Burke himself, provides the copy-text, including changes between the first and second editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund Burke (1729-97) was elected as an MP in 1781. He championed the unpopular cause of Catholic emancipation and a great part of his career became dedicated to the problem of India. The French Revolution prompted one of his best-known works \u003ci\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late James T. Boulton was Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807237865746,"sku":"9780268000851","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6376a9d3-8069-464b-906d-9439ccabca5b.jpg?v=1766047221","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edmund-burke-a-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-origin-of-our-ideas-of-the-sublime-and-beautiful-9780268000851","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}