Reading A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Alexandria
Read A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke. Exploring how beauty calms while terror thrills, Burke's radical insight reveals why we secretly crave what frightens us. His theory that the sublime stems from pain - not pleasure - illuminates everything from horror films to social media's addictive dark side. A groundbreaking work that exposed how fear shapes human nature.