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  title info:
    title: Things said for, against and about beauty
    sub title: critical sources and issues for a lost conversation
  name:
    name part: Quigley, Peter
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 305 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, Umberto Eco asserts that Boethius (480-525 AD), experiencing the collapse of Roman civilization, was living in “an age of profound crisis, an age occupied with the destruction of seemingly irreplaceable values.” In the last 120 years there has been a growing negative and corrosive energy gnawing at Western culture, a nihilism and darkness visible in the sculpture, painting and literature, and, increasingly, in the culture at large. This book argues that a look at the previous 2500 years (from the Ancients, to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Romantics, Victorians) shows the power and significance beauty has had in shaping, enriching and growing the best in what we call Western culture. In this regard the author takes James Hillman’s (1998) question to heart. “Could the causes of major social, political, and economic issues of our time also be found in the repression of beauty?” One answer comes from Dostoevsky’s character in The Idiot, who claims that “Beauty can save the world.”
  note: by Peter Quigley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-299) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  classification: BH39 .Q85 2026
  classification: 111.85
  identifier: 1036461289
  identifier: 9781036461287
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 251116
    record change date: 20260416134617.2
    record identifier: in00005778561