Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art - Alexander Nehamas - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691177601 - October 17, 2010
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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Alexander Nehamas

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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." I

200 pages, 13 color + 79 b/w illus.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 17, 2010
ISBN13 9780691177601
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 208
Dimensions 254 × 204 × 9 mm   ·   500 g
Language English  
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