Beauty
Author:   James Kirwan
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9780719055713


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   13 May 1999
Format:   Hardback
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Beauty


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In this work, James Kirwan provides a concise history of the concept of beauty as a distinct aesthetic experience (marginalized by the rise of philosophical aesthetics in the 20th century) and offers an answer to the age-old question of what beauty is; an answer that, placing the responsibility for beauty firmly with the eye of the beholder, explains what is in this ""eye"" that gives rise to beauty.

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Author:   James Kirwan
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780719055713


ISBN 10:   0719055717
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   13 May 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Impenetrable beauty; the eye of a beholder; beauty/God; impossible desire; beauty as cognition; blood and light; the heavenly and vulgar Venus; aesthetics (in parenthesis): beauty and art; the aesthetic?; beauty and aesthetics; consequencies; beyond nothing.

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James Kirwan holds a doctorate from Edinburgh University and is the author of ""Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics"" (Routledge, 1990).

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