Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Author	Immanuel Kant
Original title	Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen
Language	German
Subject	Aesthetics
Published	1764
Media type	Print

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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (German: Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen) is a 1764 book by Immanuel Kant.^[1][2][3]

The first complete translation into English was published in 1799. The second, by John T. Goldthwait, was published in 1960 by the University of California Press.