1757: Burke's "delightful horror"
 

Edmund Burke's "delightful horror" (part of his thinking on the sublime)
 
Brinkema elaborates, in a footnote, 380: "Burke's theory of 'delightful horror' is a rejoinder to John Locke's reduction of all affects to degrees of either pleasure or pain, themselves mutually exclusive conditions and the one the negative of the other. Burke's account of the particular delight of a certain type of pain linked uniquely to aesthetic feeling proposes mixed sentiments that are processual in addition to composite and multiple: a cessastion of pain produces a certain form of relieving pleasure that then returns to what Burke dubs 'indifference,' and a cessation of pleasure involves a certain from of unpleasure named as disappointment or grief"

> from Eugenie Brinkema's Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022)

> tagged with #horror, #philosophy, #emotions

> created December 20, 2024 at 3:43:12 PM


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