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The Metaphysics of Beauty / Nick Zangwill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501711350
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85
LOC classification:
  • BH39.Z39 2001
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Dependence -- Chapter 1. The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy -- Chapter 2. The Concept of the Aesthetic -- Chapter 3. Aesthetic Supervenience Defended -- Part Two. Formalism -- Chapter 4. Feasible Aesthetic Formalism -- Chapter 5. In Defense of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism -- Chapter 6. Defusing Anti-Formalist Arguments -- Chapter 7. Formal Natural Beauty -- Chapter 8. Aesthetic/Sensory Dependence -- Part Three. Realism -- Chapter 9. Hume, Taste, and Teleology -- Chapter 10. Metaphor and Realism in Aesthetics -- Chapter 11. Skin-Deep or in the Eye of the Beholder? -- Chapter 12. Differences -- Index
Summary: In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things. He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty. The Metaphysics of Beauty brings beauty to the center of intellectual consciousness in a manner informed by contemporary metaphysics and engages with beauty as an enduring object of human thought and experience.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Dependence -- Chapter 1. The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy -- Chapter 2. The Concept of the Aesthetic -- Chapter 3. Aesthetic Supervenience Defended -- Part Two. Formalism -- Chapter 4. Feasible Aesthetic Formalism -- Chapter 5. In Defense of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism -- Chapter 6. Defusing Anti-Formalist Arguments -- Chapter 7. Formal Natural Beauty -- Chapter 8. Aesthetic/Sensory Dependence -- Part Three. Realism -- Chapter 9. Hume, Taste, and Teleology -- Chapter 10. Metaphor and Realism in Aesthetics -- Chapter 11. Skin-Deep or in the Eye of the Beholder? -- Chapter 12. Differences -- Index

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In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things. He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty. The Metaphysics of Beauty brings beauty to the center of intellectual consciousness in a manner informed by contemporary metaphysics and engages with beauty as an enduring object of human thought and experience.

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In English.

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