Tag: Enquiry

Free Download A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (Audiobook)
English | April 10, 2020 | ASIN: B086XLFMQS | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 52m | 321 MB
Author: Edmund Burke | Narrator: Matt Addis
In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics. His definition of beauty as rooted in pleasure and sexuality, and the sublime in pain and survival, aligned him with the empiricists John Locke and David Hume, as he replaced the metaphysics of Plato’s aesthetics with a psychological and physiological perspective.
According to Burke, the sublime and the beautiful are experiences that can be explained by biological and sensual factors; thus he proceeds to explain how smooth lines, sweet tastes and middle frequencies of sound can be considered beautiful, and the terror created by high mountains and dark forests can be sublime.

Free Download The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom (UK Edition) by John Gray
English | 5 Mar. 2015 | ISBN: 1846144493 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 0.8 MB
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces – biological, physical, metaphysical – constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a ‘human dominion’ almost comically at odds with our true state.

Free Download An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and Other Works (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVN6KTQ | 2024 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: David Hume
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
In his autobiography, David Hume declared unequivocally that this work, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best." In it, Hume takes the discussion away from traditional attitudes where either rational or metaphysical issues govern moral principles. Instead, he introduces the human factor, introducing the sentiments and passions inherent in human psychology. Hume’s "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" stands as a testament to his profound insight into the complexities of human nature and morality.

Free Download Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative Enquiry (Bloomsbury Research in Illustration) by Mireille Fauchon
English | February 8, 2024 | ISBN: 1350297534, 1350297526 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 74/357 MB
Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool and creates within this book a model of practice-based enquiry.

Free Download Edmund Burke, James T. Boulton, "Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0268000859, 0268048738 | PDF | pages: 328 | 16.2 mb
In his Enquiry―which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"―the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the ‘sublime’ and the ‘beautiful,’ together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing sensibility of his time.

Free Download Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 368 Pages | ISBN : 303140386X | 16.1 MB
This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume’s foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book’s offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, and a unified levels of linguistic analysis approach to the investigation of humour. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria

Free Download William Godwin, "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness"
English | 2012 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1290639515 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the ‘brute engine’ of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law and order, and calls for the abolition of all forms of rule and for the institution of an anarchist society based on the principles of simplicity, sincerity and equality. His book influenced everyone from Shelley and Coleridge (who revered him) to Thomas Malthus (who wrote his Essay on the Principle of Population in outraged response to him). The book’s ideas would later echo through the writings of thinkers as diverse as Proudhon, Kropotkin, Marx and Thoreau, and it remains one of the great polemics of political literature.