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The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

English

By (author): Catherine Wesselinoff

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement and the 21st-century Beauty Revival movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position.

Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the authors view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beautydenying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty.

The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781032480763

About Catherine Wesselinoff

Catherine Wesselinoff is a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia where she teaches courses in the history of philosophy political philosophy ethics and aesthetics. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2022.

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