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The concept of the beautiful / Agnes Heller ; edited with an essay by Marcia Morgan

Author
Heller, Ágnes
Published
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (223 pages)
Additional Creators
Morgan, Marcia, 1970-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Acknowledgments; Preface; Editor's Essay; Introduction: What Went Wrong with the Concept of the Beautiful?; Chapter 01. The Platonic Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 02. Enlightenment or the This-Worldly Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 03. Kant's Concept of the Beautiful; Chapter 04. Departure and Arrival; Chapter 05. The Fragmentation of the Concept of the Beautiful; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Summary
This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one modeled on Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty, and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by the likes of Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno. The most important intellectual figures to write about beauty in Western metaphysics and in the post-metaphysical age are examined in this book.
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ISBN
9780739170489 (electronic bk.)
0739170481 (electronic bk.)
9780739170472 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0739170473 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1280659173
9781280659171
9786613636102
661363610X
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
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