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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by the Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.
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