[PDF.94qz] Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

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 | #967281 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2010-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .70 x8.00 x9.90l,1.80 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Must read for philosophy fanatics|By Synaptic Gap|One of my favorite books on philosophy, but would be best if one had a background knowledge on Shopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kant's views on aesthetic philosophy. Nehamas has an interesting take on aesthetics since he synthesizes many past views on it while adding his own passionate view.|0 of 0 people found the following review| |Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

"Mr. Nehamas sets about reclaiming something of beauty's lost meaning by showing how it is connected to our happiness. . . . That . . . a wo

Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in...

You easily download any file type for your device.Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art   |  Alexander Nehamas. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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