Only a promise of happiness: the place of beauty in a world of art
Auteur :
Nehamas, Alexander
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691177601
Date de publication :
17 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
25,4 x 20,3 cm
Poids :
510 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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." I