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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Only a Promise of Happiness The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Author: Alexander Nehamas
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....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691095219
ISBN-10: 0691095213
Publication Date: 2/5/2007
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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