New Theory of Beauty / / Guy Sircello.
Ever since the eighteenth century, when Kant opened the floodgates of subjectivism in aesthetics, common men and philosophers alike have despaired of finding a basis for judgments about beauty. This book provides a comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Beauty and the Twentieth Century
- 2. Skepticism with Regard to Beauty
- 3. Beautiful "Objects"
- 4. "Beautiful Properties"
- 5. The Job of a Theory of Beauty
- 6. Experiences of Beauty
- 7. Vividness and the Beauty of Color
- 8. The Relativity of Vividness
- 9. The Multiplicity of Colors
- 10. Vividness and the Context of Color
- 11. Vividness and Appearance
- 12. Other Beauties of Color
- 13. Properties of Qualitative Degree
- 14. The New Theory of Beauty Stated
- 15. The Argument Strategy
- 16. Beauty and the Looks of Things
- 17. TheRelativity of Looks
- 18. Other Varieties of Visual Beauty and Other Varieties of Relativity
- 19. Beauty of Sound
- 20. Beauties of Taste, Smell, and Touch
- 21. Qualifications jor Judging Beauty
- 22. Intellectual Beauty
- 23. Beauty and Utility
- 24. Beauty and Goodness
- 25. The Problem of Moral Beauty
- 26. A Defense of Moral Beauty
- 27. Beauty and the Emotions
- 28. Sublimity
- 29. Harmony and Beauty
- 30. The "Flowers of Evil" Phenomenon
- 31. Disagreements about Beauty
- 32. The Limited Use of i "Beautiful"
- 33. The Objectivity of Beauty
- 34. The Problem of the Enjoyment of Beauty
- 35. An Explanation of the Enjoyment of Beauty
- 36. Surpassing Clarity
- Index