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OverviewArguing that modern aesthetics has divorced art from beauty and therefore from life itself, a renowned philosopher seeks to reintegrate art and everyday experience. Supposedly there is a distinction between art and life, such that one can at best imitate the other. Alexander Nehamas, one of most respected philosophers of his age, makes clear just how far we have been led astray by this false dichotomy. He argues that art can only diverge from life when we scorn beauty, which connects and adorns the two. Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life takes as a starting point Plato's attacks on poetry and drama. Subsequent generations reinforced his contempt, and during the eighteenth century institutionalized it in an asserted distinction between high and low art. It was this elitist move, establishing a realm of cultivated sensibility accessible only to the educated, that resolutely severed art from experience. Instead art was imagined independent of everyday interests and popular concerns, so that aesthetic pleasure was alienated from the hopes and disappointments of life as we generally know it. Central to the conceit of modern aesthetics-and conceit it was, for the trifles of one age are often fine art in the next-was the divorce of art from beauty: beauty provokes the desire and discontents that have no place in an intellectualized order of high art. Attending to the likes of Goya, Proust, Duchamp, Mann, and Nabokov, crime novels and TV shows, Nehamas reintroduces art to beauty so that we may find art everywhere and see it for what it is: not an esoteric stimulation for the few but an integral and multifaceted component of all people's lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander NehamasPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674268685ISBN 10: 0674268687 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 27 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Postponed Indefinitley Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlexander Nehamas is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art, and On Friendship. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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