Reaffirming the Importance of Beauty

Sonja Zuba (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1864-3 (ISBN)

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This book argues that beauty challenges us to find meaning in its object, to make critical comparisons, and to examine our own lives and emotions in the light of what we find. The book examines the importance of beauty not only in terms of art and aesthetics, but also within the context of the current post-religious age. It engages with the philosophical works of Roger Scruton and William Desmond, and endorses and addresses many important discussions surrounding art and beauty found in the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. It also takes seriously the role of poetry and painting to explore the theme that runs through this research: the idea that beauty is rationally found. Meditations on the art of Manet, Van Gogh, Delacroix, Rembrandt, and other artists, together with the voices of several poets, show us that beauty cannot be reduced to aesthetics only. Irreducible to philosophy, religion, or aesthetics, the notion of beauty is deeply examined in all its forms and spiritual meaning.

Dr Sonja Zuba obtained her PhD, BA and MA in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She has worked for the Centre for Metaphysics and Modern Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, and is the author of Iris Murdoch’s Contemporary Retrieval of Plato: The Influence of an Ancient Philosopher on a Modern Novelist.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-5275-1864-7 / 1527518647
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1864-3 / 9781527518643
Zustand	Neuware