The science of sensibility : reading Burke's Philosophical enquiry / Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vermeir, Koen.

Deckard, Michael Funk.

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 206.

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.

Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.

Burke, Edmund.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797--Aesthetics.

Science--Philosophy--History--18th century.

Science.

Science--Philosophy.

History.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xxii, 337 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]

Summary:

This book examines Edmund Burke 's "Philosophical Enquiry" in both its historical context and contemporary relevance. It establishes the historical, philosophical, literary, and scientific importance of the "Philosophical Enquiry" as an independent work.

Contents:

Preface

pt. 1. Science and sensibility. Philosophical enquiries into the science of sensibility: an introductory essay / Koen Vermeir and Michael Funk Deckard

"Communicating a sort of philosophical solidity to taste" : Newtonian elements in Burke's methodology in Philosophical enquiry / Steffen Ducheyne

Hyporborean meteorologies of culture : art's progress and medical environmentalism in Arbuthnot, Burke and Barry / Aris Sarafianos

From the Enquiry (1757) to the fourth Kritisches Wäldchen (1769) : Burke and Herder on the division of the senses / Herman Parret

Edmund Burke and John Locke on the metaphysics of substance / Joseph Pappin III

pt. 2. Sensibility in politics, sociability and morals. The politics of Burke's Enquiry / F.P. Lock

Aisling Gheár - a terrible beauty : the Gaelic background to Burke's enquiry / Katherine O'Donnell

Pity and fear : providential sociability in Burke's Philosophical enquiry / Richard Bourke

Burke and Kant on the social nature of aesthetic experience / Bart Vandenabeele

The sublime, the beautiful and the political in Burke's work / Daniel I. O'Neill

pt. 3. Aesthetics and the science of sensibility. Burke's classical heritage : playing games with Longinus / Cressida Ryan

Edmund Burke among the poets : Milton, Lucretius and the Philosophical enquiry / Paddy Bullard

"Expressive uncertainty" : Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime and eighteenth-century conceptions of metaphor / Frans De Bruyn

Between knowledge and sentiment : Burke and Hume on taste / Dario Perinetti

Burke, the revenge of obscurity and the foundation of the aesthetic / Baldine Saint Girons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400721012

9400721013

OCLC:

733249953