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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vercellone, Federico, author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Standardized Title:

Oltre la bellezza. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: Beauty and the Twentieth Century 1

Does Beauty Have a History? 1

A History of Beauty 2

In Myth, Beyond Myth 8

The Spectre of Beauty 10

Chapter I The Romantic Farewell to Beauty 15

The Airy Premises of a Necessary Catastrophe 15

Form, Style, Entropy 21

Decorum and Expression 27

Chapter II The Non-containing Form. From Nietzsche to Spengler 29

Mimesis and Descriptive Knowledge 29

From Goethe to Dilthey 31

Nietzsche and the Decline of Form 32

From Nietzsche to Goethe and Beyond 37

Spengler and Beyond 44

Apollo vs. Faust 49

Chapter III From Modernity to the Avant-Garde 53

The Gothic Style and the Avant-Garde 53

Expressionism and the Gothic Style 60

From Goethe to Worringer and Beyond 63

Croce: An Enemy of the Avant-Garde? 67

Chapter IV From Negativity to the Event: Adorno after Heidegger 75

Philosophy of Art as Rearguard 75

Adorno: From Negative Dialectics to Aesthetic Utopia 78

A Hopeless Hope 85

From Adorno to Benjamin, from Jünger to Heidegger 87

Chapter V The Dissolution of the Artwork and the Rebirth of Ancient Beauty 97

Aesthetics as Energetics 97

From Philosophy to Surrealism 98

"The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty ..." 101

"High and Low" 106

Conclusion. Classicism, Again 115

Enlightenment without "Nostos" 115

An "Ecological" Thought 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vercellone, Federico. Beyond beauty.

ISBN:

9781438465876

1438465874

OCLC:

958422124