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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'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, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevaile ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France by Edmund Burke; Edward John Payne
Category: History
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: France Great Britain History / Europe / France Philosophy / Political Political Science / General Political Science / History
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Category: History
John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Classics Ser.
Reflections on the Revolution in France By Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Ir ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings by Edmund Burke; Jesse Norman (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"Amid the 18th century s golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke s controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects o ...Show more
Serious Cycling by Edmund R. Burke
Category: Sport
Ride faster and more efficiently with "Serious Cycling." Exercise scientists have unearthed a wealth of information that cyclists can use to improve their performance. However, most cyclists have never had access to this great body of knowledge. Now you do. "Serious Cycling" bridges the gap between scie ...Show more
The End of Empire in the Middle East - Britain's Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies by Glen Balfour-Paul; Malcolm Yapp (Contribution by); Edmund Burke (Contribution by); Michael C. Hudson (Contribution by); Walid Kazziha (Contribution by); Rashid Khalidi (Contribution by); Serif Mardin (Contribution by); Roger Owen (Contribution by); Basim Musallam (Contribution by); Avi Shlaim (Contribution by)
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Middle East Library
This book is an original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab Dependencies, based on a combination of first hand experience and extensive research. Glen Balfour-Paul opens by outlining Britain's position in the Middle East at the end of the Second World War. He then presents i ...Show more
The Evils of Revolution by Edmund Burke
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 45
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke's prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through violence ...Show more
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