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- catalog contributor b2735717.
- catalog contributor b2735718.
- catalog contributor b2735719.
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvi).".
- catalog description "Introduction: On taste -- [Part I.] Novelty -- Pain and pleasure -- The difference between the removal of pain and positive pleasure -- Of delight and pleasure, as opposed to each other -- Joy and grief -- Of the passions which belong to self-preservation -- Of the sublime -- Of the passions which belong to society -- The final cause of the difference between the passions belonging to self-preservation, to those which regard the society of the sexes -- Of beauty -- Society and solitude -- Sympathy, imitation and ambition -- Sympathy -- The effects of sympathy in the distresses of others -- Of the effects of tragedy -- Imitation -- Ambition -- Recapitulation -- The conclusion.".
- catalog description "[Part II.] Of the passion caused by the sublime -- Terror -- Obscurity -- Of the difference between clearness and obscurity with regard to the passions -- Power -- Privation -- Vastness -- Infinity -- Succession and uniformity -- Magnitude in building -- Infinity in pleasing objects -- Difficulty -- magnificence -- Light -- Light in building -- Colour considered as productive of the sublime -- Sound and loudness -- Suddenness -- Intermitting -- The cries of the animals -- Smell and taste. Bitters and stenches -- Feeling. Pain.".
- catalog description "[Part III.] Of beauty -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetables -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in animals -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in the human species -- Proportion further considered -- Fitness not the cause of beauty -- The real effects of fitness -- The recapitulation -- Perfection not the cause of beauty -- How far the idea of beauty may be applied to the qualities of the mind -- How far the idea of beauty may be applied to virtue -- The real cause of beauty -- Beautiful objects small -- Smoothness -- Gradual variation -- Delicacy -- Beauty in colour -- Recapitulation -- The physiognomy -- The eye -- Ugliness -- Grace -- Elegance and speciousness -- The beautiful in feeling -- The beautiful in sounds -- Taste and smell -- The sublime and beautiful compared.".
- catalog description "[Part IV.] Of the efficient cause of the sublime and beautiful -- Association -- Cause of pain and fear -- How the sublime is produced -- How pain can be a cause of delight -- Exercise necessary for the finer organs -- Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like terror -- Why visual objects of great dimensions are sublime -- Unity with requisite to vastness -- The artificial infinite -- The vibrations must be similar -- The effects of succession in visual objects explained -- Locke's opinion concerning darkness, considered -- Darkness terrible in its own nature -- Why darkness is terrible -- The effects of blackness -- The effects of blackness moderated -- The physical cause of love -- Why smoothness is beautiful -- Sweetness, its nature -- Sweetness relaxing -- Variation, why beautiful -- Concerning smallness -- Of colour.".
- catalog description "[Part V.] Of words -- The common effect of poetry, not be raising ideas of things -- General words before ideas -- The effect of words -- Examples that words may affect without raising images -- Poetry not strictly an imitative art -- How words influence the passions.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 173 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.".
- catalog identifier "0192818074 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.".
- catalog isPartOf "The World's classics".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.".
- catalog subject "111/.85 20".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "BH181 .B8 1990".
- catalog subject "Sublime, The Early works to 1800.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: On taste -- [Part I.] Novelty -- Pain and pleasure -- The difference between the removal of pain and positive pleasure -- Of delight and pleasure, as opposed to each other -- Joy and grief -- Of the passions which belong to self-preservation -- Of the sublime -- Of the passions which belong to society -- The final cause of the difference between the passions belonging to self-preservation, to those which regard the society of the sexes -- Of beauty -- Society and solitude -- Sympathy, imitation and ambition -- Sympathy -- The effects of sympathy in the distresses of others -- Of the effects of tragedy -- Imitation -- Ambition -- Recapitulation -- The conclusion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Part II.] Of the passion caused by the sublime -- Terror -- Obscurity -- Of the difference between clearness and obscurity with regard to the passions -- Power -- Privation -- Vastness -- Infinity -- Succession and uniformity -- Magnitude in building -- Infinity in pleasing objects -- Difficulty -- magnificence -- Light -- Light in building -- Colour considered as productive of the sublime -- Sound and loudness -- Suddenness -- Intermitting -- The cries of the animals -- Smell and taste. Bitters and stenches -- Feeling. Pain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Part III.] Of beauty -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetables -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in animals -- Proportion not the cause of beauty in the human species -- Proportion further considered -- Fitness not the cause of beauty -- The real effects of fitness -- The recapitulation -- Perfection not the cause of beauty -- How far the idea of beauty may be applied to the qualities of the mind -- How far the idea of beauty may be applied to virtue -- The real cause of beauty -- Beautiful objects small -- Smoothness -- Gradual variation -- Delicacy -- Beauty in colour -- Recapitulation -- The physiognomy -- The eye -- Ugliness -- Grace -- Elegance and speciousness -- The beautiful in feeling -- The beautiful in sounds -- Taste and smell -- The sublime and beautiful compared.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Part IV.] Of the efficient cause of the sublime and beautiful -- Association -- Cause of pain and fear -- How the sublime is produced -- How pain can be a cause of delight -- Exercise necessary for the finer organs -- Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like terror -- Why visual objects of great dimensions are sublime -- Unity with requisite to vastness -- The artificial infinite -- The vibrations must be similar -- The effects of succession in visual objects explained -- Locke's opinion concerning darkness, considered -- Darkness terrible in its own nature -- Why darkness is terrible -- The effects of blackness -- The effects of blackness moderated -- The physical cause of love -- Why smoothness is beautiful -- Sweetness, its nature -- Sweetness relaxing -- Variation, why beautiful -- Concerning smallness -- Of colour.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Part V.] Of words -- The common effect of poetry, not be raising ideas of things -- General words before ideas -- The effect of words -- Examples that words may affect without raising images -- Poetry not strictly an imitative art -- How words influence the passions.".
- catalog title "A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke ; edited with an introduction by Adam Phillips.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".