The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. Situated on the thr
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THE SCIENCE OF SENSIBILITY: READING BURKE’S PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY
Edited by
Koen Vermeir • Michael Funk Deckard
Board of Directors: Founding Editors: Paul Dibon†, Richard H. Popkin† Director: Sarah Hutton, University of Aberystwyth, UK Associate Directors: J.E. Force, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA; J.C. Laursen, University of California, Riverside, USA Editorial Board: M.J.B. Allen, Los Angeles; J.-R. Armogathe, Paris; S. Clucas, London; G. Giglioni, London; P. Harrison, Oxford; J. Henry, Edinburgh; M. Mulsow, Erfurt; G. Paganini, Vercelli; J. Popkin, Lexington; J. Robertson, Cambridge; G.A.J. Rogers, Keele; J.F. Sebastian, Bilbao; A. Sutcliffe, London; A. Thomson, Paris; Th. Verbeek, Utrecht For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5640
Koen Vermeir • Michael Funk Deckard Editors
The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry
Editors Koen Vermeir Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique REHSEIS-SPHERE (UMR 7219) Rue Thomas Mann 5, Case 7093 Paris 75205, Cedex 13 France [email protected]
Michael Funk Deckard Lenoir-Rhyne University 625 7th Avenue NE Hickory, NC 28603 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0066-6610 ISBN 978-94-007-2101-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2102-9 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2102-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940324 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in Context, 250 Years Later Michael Funk Deckard and Koen Vermeir
The Science of Sensibility ‘The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.’ In this way, Edmund Burke (1730–1797) begins his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. ‘We see children perpetually running from place to place, to hunt out something new: they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by everything, because everything has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.’1 This has been the fate of the reception of the Philosophical Enquiry itself. The book, written in a brilliant style and full of new and surprising insights, has always attracted the curious. Unfortunately, the Enquiry has never received the sustained attention of professional philosophers or historians of ideas.2 In the academic literature, the work is only treated superficially in general his
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