A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford World's Cl

An eloquent and sometimes even eoticook, the Philosophical Enquiy was long dismissed as a piece of mee juvenilia. Howeve, Buke's analysis of theelationshipetween emotion, eauty, and at fom is nowecognized as not only an impotant and influential wok of aesthetic theoy, ut also one of the fist majo woks in Euopean liteatue on the Sulime, a suject that has fascinated thinkes fom Kant and Coleidge to the philosophes and citics of today.