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" For the love of beauty : "
Arthur Pontynen.
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881060
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Pontynen, Arthur.
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For the love of beauty : : art, history, and the moral foundations of aesthetic judgment /\ Arthur Pontynen.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Transaction Publishers,, ©2006.
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xvii, 364 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0765803011
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: 9780765803016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.
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| Contents
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Art history and the cultural amnesia of modernity and postmodernity -- Classicism : the nature of beauty, the fragility of goodness -- The Laocoön : the challenge of tragedy and the metaphysics of Plotinus -- The Judeo-Christian tradition : aesthetics and beauty reconciled -- The Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque : from a qualitative to a quantitative universe -- The modernist-postmodernist tradition : the subjective-objectivity of the "Enlightenment" and the decline of beauty -- Ways of worldmaking : Nietzsche's rebirth of tragedy -- Western culture at the crossroads : the history of art and the postmodern eschaton -- Subject, object, and responsible freedom in the pursuit of beauty.
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Aesthetics.
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Art-- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics.
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Ästhetik
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Philosophy.
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701/.17
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N66.P66 2006
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