Only a Promise of Happiness
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| ISBN | 9780691177601 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Price (excl. tax) | €28.21 |
| Tax | €1.69 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €29.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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 beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." I