The Revival of Beauty

ISBN-13: 9781032480756 / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str.

Australia) Wesselinoff Catherine (University of Notre Dame

Opis

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesethetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position.

Spis treści

General Introduction  Part 1: Kalliphobia: The Case Against Beauty  Part 1: Introduction  1. Beauty as the "Merely Sensuous"  2. Beauty and Evil  3. Art without Beauty  Part 1: Conclusion  Part 2: Philocaly: The Case for Beauty  Part 2: Introduction  4. Reply to the Anti-Aesthetic  5. Arguments for Beauty  6. Neo-Aestheticism  Part 2: Conclusion  Part 3: Kallistics: The Verdict  Part 3: Introduction  7. The Acquaintance Principle  8. The Aesthetic Attitude  9. Aesthetic Emotion  Part 3: Conclusion  General Conclusion

O autorze

Catherine Wesselinoff is a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, where she teaches courses in the history of philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2022.