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| Other authors / contributors: | Princeton University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9780300266894
0300266898
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-167) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | "Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connections among art, beauty, and desire, and to show that the values of art, independently of their moral worth, are equally crucial to the rest of life""--Publisher's description.
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| Awards: | Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2007.
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| Other form: | Print version: Nehamas, Alexander, 1946- Only a promise of happiness. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691095219 0691095213 9780691148656 0691148651
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