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The experience of beauty : seven essays and a dialogue / Harry Underwood

Author
Underwood, Harry, 1951-
Published
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages)
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Contents
The experience of beauty -- Platonic desire -- Nietzsche's artist and his thinker -- A dialogue on truth, love, beauty, and art -- Seeing and making in art -- On truth in art -- Proust's vision -- The beauty within.
Summary
"The notion of beauty as a point of transit between the sensuous and the ideal is well-established in the history of Western philosophy. Describing this transition and seeking to rethink the ways in which humans understand the things they find beautiful in life, Harry Underwood's The Experience of Beauty comes at the notion of beauty through the insights of major but distinctively individual philosophers and artists. In seven essays and a dialogue, Underwood considers the principal instances of beauty as it reveals itself in everyday experience, as a concept in the mind of the philosopher, as the artist's vision, and as the shining image of the ideal. Considering the perspectives of many notable figures in the Western canon of philosophy and literature for whom beauty and the imagination have mattered, including Plato, Nietzsche, Auden, Coleridge, Proust, and Iris Murdoch, Underwood draws out a rounded sense of beauty. It is shown to be, on one view, inherent in a perceptible order and, on another, to be an expression of the will to confer meaning on a meaningless world. In art, beauty reveals itself to be both perceived and created, and a world-disclosing, truth-relaying force. As a final matter, Underwood asks what it means to embrace your own vision of beauty and apply it to your life's work. A quietly provocative meditation on the mystery of beauty, this collection of essays contends that beauty serves life as an inspiration, not merely as an ornament."--
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9780773599826 (epdf)
0773599827 (epdf)
9780773599833 (epub)
0773599835 (epub)
9780773548015 (hardback)
0773548017 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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