Quest for Meaning A Journey Through Philosophy, the Arts, and Creative Genius

Name: Quest for Meaning A Journey Through Philosophy, the Arts, and Creative Genius
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ISBN: 9780761815266

ISBN-10: 0761815260

ISBN-13: 9780761815266

Edition: 2000

Authors: William Cooney

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List price: $80.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.08" wide x 8.92" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Preface
Philosophy and the Arts
Introduction: The Philosophical Attitude and The Gift of Existence	p. 1
The Nature, Tasks, and Branches of Philosophy	p. 21
Plato: Philosophy and the Arts, and the Need for Control	p. 33
Aristotle: The Arts and the Human Person	p. 53
From Augustine and Aquinas to Leonardo and Michelangelo: Coming out of the Aesthetic Dark Ages	p. 69
Rousseau and the Romantics: The Role of Feeling in the Arts	p. 87
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: The Art of Creating the Individual	p. 107
Marcel and Sartre: On the Nature of Creation, Human and Divine	p. 131
The Challenge of Postmodernism	p. 161
Profiles of Creative Genius
Mozart and Beethoven: Two Faces of Creative Genius	p. 175
Emily Dickinson: A Poetic Genius Looks at Death	p. 191
Vincent Van Gogh: Risking My Life for My Art	p. 207
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray	p. 217
Frank Lloyd Wright: Creative Force of Nature	p. 237
Carl Jung: On Psychology and Art	p. 251
Conclusion: The Quest for Meaning as an End-in-Itself	p. 263
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