Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess

ISBN-13: 9781402065200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 296 str.

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa

Opis

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature s enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. This collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of the Human Condition. It endeavors to explain the relation of beauty and human existence, and explores the various aspects of beauty."

Spis treści

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A.-T. Tymieniecka; THEMATIC STUDY. BEAUTY, TRUTH, ALTERITY: BEYOND CAUSE AND EFFECT; B. Grassom. Part I. EROS / KALON / AGATHOS: LOVE, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE GOOD; L. Kimmel. THE BEAUTIFUL RECOLLECTED: MEMORY AND BEAUTY IN PLATO'S PHAEDRUS; G. Hindin. ART AFTER BEAUTY: VALUES BEFORE STANDARDS; J. Baldacchino. THE SEMANTICS OF BEAUTY; P. Trupia. Part II. THE AESTHETICS OF POSSIBILITY; M. Golaszewska. AESTHETISATION OF AESTHETIC VALUES? M. Sulkowska. SHATTERING BEAUTY: RILKE'S AESTHETICS OF THE FRAGMENTARY; V. Reed & M. Statkiewicz. FROM PERFECT BEAUTY TO A CONSCIOUS LIFE: AND ELUCIDATION OF THE POSTROMANTIC IMPORT OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, BASED ON HENRY JAMES’S THE SPOILS OF POYNTON; V.G. Rivas. VON HILDEBRANDS, FATHER AND SON, AND THE BEAUTIFUL; R.D. Sweeney. Part III. MEASURE OR EXCESS: THE UNITY OF THE AESTHETIC, THE ETHICAL, AND THE POLITICAL IN DANTE, MARLOWE, AND MOLIERE; R.J. Wilson III. MEASURE AND EXCESS; B. Grassom. HARMONIOUS BALANCE: ULTIMATE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY AND GOODNESS, A CONFUCIAN VIEW; T.-I. Dow. THE DIALECTIC OF THE SERIOUS AND THE LUDIC IN MYTH AND ART; V. Marchenkov. Part IV. THE THEATER ABSURD AND REALITY; M. Kaluza. TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH; P. Trutty-Coohill. MINIMALIST ART: 'LESS IS MORE' OR THE PARADOX OF BOREDOM; D.G. Scillia. DANCES WITH BEARS: THE BEGINNINGS OF WESTERN ART; B. Ross. Part V. THE RE-EMERGENCE OF BEAUTY IN CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGY; J. Werner & E. Stylianou. BEAUTY AND TRUTH IN SCIENCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY; A. Piper. ACTION AND THE OPEN WORK; C. Waace. LIVED WORDS RE-VISITED: THE OPACITY OF THE TRANSPARENT A TIME DWELLER’S VOYAGE IN THE WORLD OF THE TITANIC FILM; M.Itkonen. IMPENETRABLE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND VALUE IN ACADEMIC MUSIC COMPOSITION; M. Beken. HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF MARK ROTHKO’S PAINTING; A.J. Svedlow. Index of Names

O autorze

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Blurb

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess?

The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above.

Papers by: Brian Grassom, Lawrence Kimmel, Gabriel Hindin, John Baldachino, Piero Trupia, Maria Golaszewska, Mariola Sulkowska, Valerie Reed, Max Statkiewicz, Victor Gerald Rivas, Robert D. Sweeney, Raymond J. Wilson III, Tsung-I Dow, Vladimir Marchenkov, Maciej Kaluza, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Diane G. Scillia, Bruce Ross, James Werner, Elena Stylianou, Arthur Piper, Christopher Wallace, Matti Itkonen, Munir Beken, Andrew J. Svedlow.