The concept of the beautiful /

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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