Six Names of Beauty

Name: Six Names of Beauty
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ISBN: 9780415979924

ISBN-10: 0415979927

ISBN-13: 9780415979924

Edition: 2006

Authors: Crispin Sartwell

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Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Crispin Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's "to kalon," the Japanese idea of "wabi-sabi," Hebrew's "yapha," the Navajo concept "hozho," Sanskrit "sundara," and our own English-language "beauty." Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. The earthy and the exalted, the imperfect and the ideal: things, spaces, high art, sounds, aromas, nothingness. Sartwell writes about…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English




Beauty (English): The Object of Longing



Sundara (Sanskrit): Whole, Holy



Yapha (Hebrew): Shine



Kalos (Greek): Fine, Noble



Wabi-Sabi (Japanese): Simplicity, Stillness, Imperfection



Hozho (Navajo): Health, Balance, Wholeness