| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index. |
| Summary |
This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one modeled on Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty, and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by the likes of Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno. The most important intellectual figures to write about beauty in Western metaphysics and in the post-metaphysical age are examined in this book. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Preface; Editor's Essay; Introduction: What Went Wrong with the Concept of the Beautiful?; Chapter 01. The Platonic Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 02. Enlightenment or the This-Worldly Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 03. Kant's Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 04. Departure and Arrival; Chapter 05. The Fragmentation of the Concept of the Beautiful; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- History.
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Aesthetics. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Morgan, Marcia, 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780739170472 |
| ISBN |
9780739170489 (electronic book) |
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0739170481 (electronic book) |
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9780739170472 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739170473 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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