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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, …
Reflektioner om franska revolutionen
»När jämvikten på det fartyg han seglar hotas av överlast på ena sidan önskar [han] lägga den ringa vikt som hans förnuft kan bidra med till att bevara dess jämvikt.«När är …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on …
Reflections on the Revolution in France: An Intellectual Attacks Against the French Revolution
Reflections on the Revolution in France - An Intellectual Attacks against the French Revolution - The proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event: in a letter …
Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings
Amid the 18th centuryââ?¬â?¢s golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burkeââ?¬â?¢s controversial mixture of conservative and …
A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to …
The Environment and World History
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world …
Rethinking World History
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in …
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
First published in 1757, the treatise "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a …
Revolutionary Writings
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern …
Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1
Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This first volume contains Burke's defence of the American …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Regarded as a founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke (1729–97) proved an influential yet controversial writer and politician. Although sympathetic towards American colonists …