A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.

I had read this before but I reread it now, searching to see if I missed something the first time. My excellent teachers have almost universal praise for Burke. To be honest, I find him to be limited in many ways, especially in terms of his nativism and hetero-orthodoxy. Some of the discussion of beauty is so incredibly sexist as well. I admit he has much to say, but the tone is pompous, and I wonder if it's my own biases about how English seem to like to define rules for everything... I actually started wondering what kind of game association football (soccer) would be like if the Brazilians wrote the rules for the ancient Sumerian game instead of the English.