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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: revival of beauty
    sub title: aesthetics, experience and philosophy
  name:
    name part: Wesselinoff, Catherine
    name part: 1988-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty, the 20th-century "Anti-Aesethetic" 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 sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author's view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty-denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty and the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy and art history.
  table of contents: Kalliphobia: The Case against beauty -- Philocaly: The Case for beauty -- Kallistics: The Verdict
  note: Catherine Wesselinoff.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-193) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  classification: BH39 .W469 2024
  classification: 111/.85
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge research in aesthetics
  identifier: 9781032480756
  identifier: 1032480750
  identifier: 9781032480763
  identifier: 1032480769
  identifier: 9781003387282
  identifier: 2023011835
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230310
    record change date: 20240410132407.8
    record identifier: in00004780073