Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

by Alexander Nehamas

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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." In Only a Promise of Happiness , Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691095213

ISBN13:9780691095219

Release Date:February 2007

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:2.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

Aesthetics Art Art History Arts, Music & Photography Earth Sciences Geography History & Criticism Humanities Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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