Only a Promise of Happiness The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Name: Only a Promise of Happiness The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
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ISBN: 9780691148656

ISBN-10: 0691148651

ISBN-13: 9780691148656

Edition: 2007

Authors: Alexander Nehamas

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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." InOnly 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. Nehamas makes his case with characteristic grace,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English