Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691177601ISBN-10:691177600UPC:9780691177601Book Category:Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, AestheticsSize:9.90 x 8.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAKBVQ5N6
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691177601ISBN-10:691177600UPC:9780691177601Book Category:Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, AestheticsSize:9.90 x 8.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAKBVQ5N6
Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, and Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (Princeton)
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