The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Philosophical Enquiries into the Science of Sensibility: An Introductory Essay....Pages 3-56
‘Communicating a Sort of Philosophical Solidity to Taste’: Newtonian Elements in Burke’s Methodology in Philosophical Enquiry ....Pages 57-68
Hyporborean Meteorologies of Culture: Art’s Progress and Medical Environmentalism in Arbuthnot, Burke and Barry....Pages 69-90
From the Enquiry (1757) to the Fourth Kritisches Wäldchen (1769): Burke and Herder on the Division of the Senses....Pages 91-106
Edmund Burke and John Locke on the Metaphysics of Substance....Pages 107-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
The Politics of Burke’s Enquiry ....Pages 125-138
 Aisling Gheár – A Terrible Beauty: The Gaelic Background to Burke’s Enquiry ....Pages 139-150
Pity and Fear: Providential Sociability in Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry ....Pages 151-175
Burke and Kant on the Social Nature of Aesthetic Experience....Pages 177-192
The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Political in Burke’s Work....Pages 193-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Burke’s Classical Heritage: Playing Games with Longinus....Pages 225-245
Edmund Burke Among the Poets: Milton, Lucretius and the Philosophical Enquiry ....Pages 247-263
‘Expressive Uncertainty’: Edmund Burke’s Theory of the Sublime and Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Metaphor....Pages 265-282
Between Knowledge and Sentiment: Burke and Hume on Taste....Pages 283-304
Burke, the Revenge of Obscurity and the Foundation of the Aesthetic....Pages 305-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-337