关于我们崇高与美观念之根源的哲学探究

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Burke published “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful” in London in 1757, with a second, expanded edition in 1759. The book distinguishes two kinds of aesthetic experience: the beautiful, which arises from qualities such as smallness, smoothness and gradual variation and produces love, and the sublime, which arises from obscurity, power, vastness, infinity and privation and produces a “delightful horror” connected with self-preservation. Burke explained both partly in physiological terms. The book was widely read across Europe; Lessing planned a translation, Garve’s German version appeared in 1773, and Kant discussed it in the “Critique of Judgment”.

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