The Sensational Brain

Burke, Price, and Knight

Mallgrave, Harry Francis (author)

The Architect's Brain ; 41-52

2010-01-08

12 pages

9781405195850 , 9781444317275

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317275.ch3

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Descartes and John Locke – definitive philosophical foundations for scientific and aesthetic thought , Burke and the physiology of emotion , Locke, forming ideas of beauty and proportions by manner in which the brain works , Burke's goals, raising idea of the “sublime” ‐ as aesthetic category equal to and alongside that of beauty , “Beauty,” he argues, is not a quality in things themselves, it exists in the mind which contemplates them , Knight, principal work of theory, An analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste , Hume believing, sentiments of pleasure of a beautiful object ‐ cultivated and strengthened by mental habits , essay in The Investigator, entitled “Dialogue on Taste” , The Sensational Brain ‐ Burke, Price, and Knight , Price's Essays on the Picturesque (1794) ‐ in British landscape theory in late eighteenth‐century