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The concept of the beautiful / Agnes Heller ; edited with an essay by Marcia Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heller, Ágnes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--History.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: what went wrong with the concept of the beautiful?
- The Platonic concept of the beautiful
- Enlightenment, or the this-worldly concept of the beautiful
- Kant's concept of the beautiful
- Departure and arrival: Hegel's adventure
- The fragmentation of the concept of the beautiful.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-21503-5
- 1-280-65917-3
- 9786613636102
- 0-7391-7048-1
- OCLC:
- 775873208
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