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Which European thinkers took notice of Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry?
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, published in 1757, gained significant attention from European thinkers of the era. Notably, the work was observed by:
- Denis Diderot1
- Immanuel Kant1
- G.E. Lessing1
Burke’s exploration of the sublime and the beautiful was highly influential in late 18th-century aesthetics, even inspiring one of Immanuel Kant’s early publications on the subject of the sublime.2