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Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states the first an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A Philosophical Enquiry is an involving account of our sensory, imaginative and judgemental processes and their relation to artistic appreciation. Burke's work was hugely influential on his contemporaries and also admired by later writers such as Matthew Arnold and William Wordsworth. This volume also contains several of his early political works on subjects including natural society, government and the American colonies, which illustrate his liberal, humane views.

It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time''s invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. "A Philosophy of Boredom" investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it originated, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will. Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology, and popular culture, examining boredom''s pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophical musings on boredom from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern explorations into alienation and transgression by twentieth-century artists from Beckett to Warhol. A witty and entertaining account of our dullest moments and most maddening days, "A Philosophy of Boredom" will appeal to anyone curious to know what lies beneath the overwhelming inertia of inactivity.

¿Que podemos dicir do amor, senón que o necesitamos? ¿Que podemos dicir da literatura, senón que se relaciona coa escuridade que somos? Antón Baamonde escribe estes vinte e dous ensaios dende unha actitude labil cun mundo sempre irredutible a sua aprehension pola idea.

In this series of dialogues, Derrida discusses and elaborates on some of the central themes of his work, such as the problems of genesis, justice, authorship and death. Combining autobiographical reflection with philosophical enquiry, Derrida illuminates the ideas that have characterized his thought from its beginning to the present day. If there is one single feature that links these contributions, it is the theme of singularity - that is, the uniqueness of the individual, the resistance of existence to philosophy, the temporality of the singular and exceptional moment, and the problem of exemplarity. The second half of this book contains an essay by Maurizio Ferraris in which he explores the questions of indication, time and the inscription of the transcendental in the empirical. The essay is developed in close proximity to Derrida and in dialogue with figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Kant, Hegel and Heidegger. It thereby provides at once a useful introduction to the philosophy of one of Italy''s most prominent philosophers and complements Derrida''s own ideas. ''A Taste for the Secret'' consists of material that has never before appeared in English. It will be of great interest to second year university graduates and above, graduate students and academics in modern languages, literature, literary theory, philosophy and the humanities generally.