Juan De la Dehesa’s Translation of Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes Juan De la Dehesa’s translation of Edmund Burke’s ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’ written in 1807. The main purpose is to examine whether this translation achieves to fully translate the philosophical content of the text successfully taking into account different considerations such as the edition which has been translated; whether there is anything missing or if anything has been added; if the translation is from English to Spanish or a French translation has been used. For this the use of contemporary works such as historical dictionaries and other translation from English to Spanish will be used.