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The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

The Revival of Beauty Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

By Catherine Wesselinoff Copyright 2024
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” 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. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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