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Beyond beauty / by Federico Vercellone ; translated by Sarah De Sanctis

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Vercellone, Federico
Uniform Title
Oltre la bellezza. English
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Physical Description
viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Does Beauty Have a History? -- A History of Beauty -- In Myth, Beyond Myth -- The Spectre of Beauty -- ch. I The Romantic Farewell to Beauty -- The Airy Premises of a Necessary Catastrophe -- Form, Style, Entropy -- Decorum and Expression -- ch. II The Non-containing Form: From Nietzsche to Spengler -- Mimesis and Descriptive Knowledge -- From Goethe to Dilthey -- Nietzsche and the Decline of Form -- From Nietzsche to Goethe and Beyond -- Spengler and Beyond -- Apollo vs. Faust -- ch. III From Modernity to the Avant-Garde -- The Gothic Style and the Avant-Garde -- Expressionism and the Gothic Style -- From Goethe to Worringer and Beyond -- Croce: An Enemy of the Avant-Garde? -- ch. IV From Negativity to the Event: Adorno after Heidegger -- Philosophy of Art as Rearguard -- Adorno: From Negative Dialectics to Aesthetic Utopia -- A Hopeless Hope -- From Adorno to Benjamin, from Junger to Heidegger -- ch. V The Dissolution of the Artwork and the Rebirth of Ancient Beauty -- Aesthetics as Energetics -- From Philosophy to Surrealism -- "The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty ..." -- "High and Low" -- Conclusion. Classicism, Again -- Enlightenment without "Nostos" -- An "Ecological" Thought.
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9781438465876 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1438465874 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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