The Science of Sensibility Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry [Hardcover]

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burkes Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burkes prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burkes oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burkes Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

This book examines Edmund Burkes 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.

Preface: Edmund Burkes Philosophical Enquiry in context, M.F. Deckard, K. Vermeir.- Part 1: Science and Sensibility.- Philosophical Enquiries into the Science of Sensibility: An Introductory Essay, K. Vermeir, M.F. Deckard.- 'Communicating a Sort of Philosophical Solidity to Taste: Newtonian Elements in Burkes Methodology in Philosophical Enquiry, S. Ducheyne.- Hyporborean Meteorologies of Culture: Arts Progress and Medical Environmentalism in Arbuthnot, Burke and Barr, A. Sarafianos.- From the Enquiry (1757) to the Fourth Kritisches W?ldchen (1769): Burke and Herder on the Division of the Senses, H. Parret.- Edmund Burke and John Locke on the Metaphysics of Substance, J. Pappin III.- Part 2: Sensibility in Politics, Sociability and Morals.- The Politics of Burkes Enquiry, F.P. Lock.- Aisling Ghe?r?  A Terrible Beauty: The Gaelic Backgrounl3)