The science of sensibility : reading Burke's Philosophical enquiry - Deckard, Michael Funk.; Vermeir, Koen. (Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Burke, Edmund. -- Aesthetics; Burke, Edmund; 1700-luku; Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century; Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century; estetiikka; tieteenfilosofia