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Only a Promise of Happiness – The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

by Alexander Nehamas

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • 20.5 x 25.2 x 0.9 cm

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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
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  • Title

    Only a Promise of Happiness – The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

  • Author

    Alexander Nehamas

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Princeton University Press

  • Published

    October 2019

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    20.5 x 25.2 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780691177601

  • ISBN-10

    0691177600

  • Eden Code

    5786784

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