Edmund Burke

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

In A Philosophical Enquiry... Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics. His definition of beauty as rooted in pleasure and sexuality, and the sublime in pain and...

A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas

A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is...

Philosophical Enquiry

Philosophical Enquiry

Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts of central, perennial importance to the field of aesthetics, namely, the beautiful and the sublime. Written...

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites and the Crown. Burke tackles the new...

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal...

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The author sets before the reader a lifelike picture of the deities of classical times as they were conceived and worshipped by the ancients themselves, and thereby to awaken in the minds of young students...