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On Beauty
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-07-06
On Beauty written by Zadie Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-06 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and family Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. 'I didn't want to finish, I was enjoying it so much' Evening Standard 'Thrums with intellectual sass and know-how' Literary Review 'Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle' Daily Telegraph 'Satirical, wise and sexy' Washington Post
On Beauty
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
On Beauty written by Zadie Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon.
On Beauty
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher: ePenguin
Release Date : 2006-07-06
On Beauty written by Zadie Smith and has been published by ePenguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-06 with Fiction categories.
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.
On Beauty And Being Just
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Author : Elaine Scarry
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-21
On Beauty And Being Just written by Elaine Scarry and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Philosophy categories.
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.
On Beauty
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Author : Susan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-03-31
On Beauty written by Susan Johnson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Literary Collections categories.
In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: 'Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one must speak of beauty in whispers.' She writes of where her search has taken her, how 'beauty enters the body like desire', and how beauty is nothing less than 'life's call to order, life's bid to save it from itself'.
On Beauty And Being Just
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Author : Elaine Scarry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2006
On Beauty And Being Just written by Elaine Scarry and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Aesthetics categories.
Elaine Scarry argues that beauty, from a political perspective, does indeed have a positive effect on life. She maintains that the arguments against its value, put forward over recent decades, are erroneous.
Hegel On Beauty
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Author : Julia Peters
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Hegel On Beauty written by Julia Peters and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Philosophy categories.
While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical development. Her careful analysis of Hegel’s notion of beauty not only has crucial implications for our understanding of the ‘end of art’ and Hegel’s aesthetics in general, but also sheds light on other fields of Hegel’s philosophy, in particular his anthropology and aspects of his ethical thought.
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
On Beauty written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with Aesthetics categories.
Aquinas On Beauty
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Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Aquinas On Beauty written by Christopher Scott Sevier and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas’s thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.
Hegel On Beauty
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Author : Julia Peters
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Hegel On Beauty written by Julia Peters and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Philosophy categories.
While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical development. Her careful analysis of Hegel’s notion of beauty not only has crucial implications for our understanding of the ‘end of art’ and Hegel’s aesthetics in general, but also sheds light on other fields of Hegel’s philosophy, in particular his anthropology and aspects of his ethical thought.