Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art by Alexander Nehamas

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Alexander Nehamas

186 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of ...

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