Being for Beauty
«...thought-provoking...»
Inês Morais, Forma de Vida
No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. Les mer
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significance, Dominic McIver Lopes offers an entirely new theory of beauty in this volume. Beauty engages us in action, in concert with others, in the context of social networks. Lopes's 'network theory' explains the social dimension of aesthetic agency, the tie between beauty and pleasure, the importance of
disagreement in matters of taste, and the reality of aesthetic values as denizens of the natural world. The two closing chapters shed light on why aesthetic engagement is so important to quality of life, and why it deserves (and gets) lavish public support. Being for Beauty offers a fresh contribution to aesthetics but also to thinking about metanormativity, the metaphysics of value, and virtue theory.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198827214
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«...thought-provoking...»
Inês Morais, Forma de Vida
«The ambitious aim of this book is to offer a completely new, if partial, account of aesthetic value. . . . essential reading for philosophers interested in aesthetic value.»
Robert Stecker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
«[an] elegantly argued book ... This is an excellent addition to the literature on aesthetics»
L. Bernhardt, CHOICE