The concept of the beautiful /

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Author / Creator:	Heller, Agnes.
Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (223 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics -- History. Aesthetics. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403780

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Other authors / contributors:	Morgan, Marcia, 1970-
ISBN:	9780739170489 0739170481 9780739170472 0739170473
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780739170472

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