Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Roger Scruton (Research Professor, Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199229758


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Roger Scruton (Research Professor, Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 10.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.157kg
ISBN:  

9780199229758


ISBN 10:   0199229759
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: Judging beauty 2: Human beauty 3: Natural beauty 4: Everyday beauty 5: Artistic beauty 6: Taste and order 7: Art and Eros 8: The flight from beauty 9: Concluding thoughts Notes and Further Reading

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Review from previous edition As always with Scruton, his prose is exquisite and wonderfully clear, which fact together with the illustrations make his book a thing of beauty itself. A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper Careful and absorbing. A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper This is a fascinating and thought-provoking little book. A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper Roger Scruton has moments of great insight and clarity in this attractively slim volume. Sebastian Smee, The Observer A fascinating book, which I heartily recommend. Bryan Wilson, Readers Digest Short, fast paced, and wide ranging. Michael Tanner, Literary Review


`Review from previous edition As always with Scruton, his prose is exquisite and wonderfully clear, which fact together with the illustrations make his book a thing of beauty itself.' A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper `Careful and absorbing.' A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper `This is a fascinating and thought-provoking little book.' A. C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper `Roger Scruton has moments of great insight and clarity in this attractively slim volume.' Sebastian Smee, The Observer `A fascinating book, which I heartily recommend.' Bryan Wilson, Readers Digest `Short, fast paced, and wide ranging.' Michael Tanner, Literary Review


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Roger Scruton was research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences based in Arlington, Virginia. His previous academic affiliations have been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and subsequently Professor of Philosophy and University Professor at Boston University. His published works range from academic philosophy, specialising in aesthetics, to fiction, and political and cultural commentary. They includeOn Hunting (1998), An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998), Spinoza (1998), Perictione in Colophon (2000), and England: an Elegy (2000).

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