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  • Edmund Burke
    In aesthetics: The origins of modern aesthetics

    …series of influential essays, “The Pleasures of the Imagination” in The Spectator (1712). He defended the theory that imaginative association is the fundamental component in our experience of art, architecture, and nature, and is the true explanation of their value to us.

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