Agnes Heller

Concept of the Beautiful

Herausgeber: Morgan, Marcia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one modeled on Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty, and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by the likes of Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno. The most important intellectual figures to write about beauty in Western metaphysics and in the post-metaphysical age are examined in this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780739170472
• ISBN-10: 0739170473
• Artikelnr.: 34226053

Autorenporträt

Agnes Heller

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Editor's Essay
The Concept of the Beautiful, by Agnes Heller
Introduction: What Went Wrong with the Concept of the Beautiful?
Chapter 1: The Platonic Concept of the Beautiful
Chapter 2: Enlightenment, or the This-Worldly Concept of the Beautiful
Chapter 3: Kant's Concept of the Beautiful
Chapter 4: Departure and Arrival: Hegel's Adventure
Chapter 5: The Fragmentation of the Concept of the Beautiful