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

Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, “aesthetic pleasure.” In ...

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

In his new book Alexander Nehamas wishes to rehabilitate talk of beauty as a characteristic of art, in the face, first, of philosophical or ...

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

This is a grand work by a distinguished scholar in the field of aesthetics, and as such, deserves the attention of art historians, ...

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

Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art Reviewed by.Adam Melinn - 2007 - Philosophy in Review 27 (4):282-284. Only ...

Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness

Remarks on Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (Princeton University Press, 2007)

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

Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise ...

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

Like Plato and Nietzsche, Nehamas argues that beauty has a direct impact on our lives. But unlike those two thinkers, Nehamas disagrees that ...

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

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Nehamas, in particular, thinks that beauty has been too narrowly defined and that both the pro-beauty camp and the anti-beauty camp have painted ...

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Yet such a vision can never be completely realised. For coherence and unity, values belonging to both art and life are never, in art or life, fully achievable.

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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art locates beauty's origins in the subject's loving relations to the world, and thereby provides ...

r/askphilosophy on Reddit: "Beauty is only the promise of happiness"

So again, Aquinas builds on the Platonic tradition to arrive at this understanding that a progressive ascendancy from knowing and uniting ...

Only a Promise of Happiness - Metapsychology Online Reviews

Nehamas brings this lesson home to art when in Part III he says simply, "all that is also true of the arts" (73). That is, "beautiful works spark the urgent ...

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

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. ... ” In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics.

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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (review). Douglas Mao. Common Knowledge, Volume 16, Issue 1, Winter 2010, p. 159 (Review).

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

. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. ... The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 540–542. ... The text of this article is ...

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

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art by Nehamas, Alexander - ISBN 10: 0691148651 - ISBN 13: 9780691148656 - Princeton ...