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PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-100806113634

ISBN-139780806113630

eBay Product ID (ePID)119011982

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Number of Pages360 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePhilosophy of Beauty

Publication Year2012

SubjectAesthetics

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorFrancis J. Kovach

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight18.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN73-019389

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SynopsisThere has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics--ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with the comprehensive presentations of an objectivist philosophy of beauty to balance the currently popular aesthetic subjectivism. It includes a synopsis of views and theories expressed on the various questions about beauty by philosophers down through the ages. Kovach's acquaintance with relevant literature from the ancient Greeks to twentieth-century authors is staggering. He draws on the observations of thinkers from ancient times--Plato, Aristotle. Philo of Alexandria, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others; from medieval times--Alexander of Hales, John of la Rochelle, Thomas of York, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Dionysius the Carthusian, and others; from modern times--Descartes, J. Addison, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Santayana, Croce, Maritain, Sartre, H. Read, Thomas Munro, and others. With delicate precision Kovach systematically discusses the philosophy of beauty and the problems it raises. Whether or not one agrees with Kovach's objectivist position, no one in the field can afford to be without this book., There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics - ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with presentations of an objectivist philosophy of beauty to balance the currently popular aesthetic subjectivism.