Ronald W Hepburn

The Reach of the Aesthetic

Collected Essays on Art and Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2001, this book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity, superficiality and depth in aesthetic appreciation of nature, moral beauty and ugliness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138726659
• ISBN-10: 1138726656
• Artikelnr.: 57042780

Autorenporträt

Ronald W. Hepburn

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Trivial and serious in the aesthetic appreciation of nature
Truth, subjectivity and the aesthetic
Aesthetic and moral: links and limits. Part I
Aesthetic and moral: links and limits. Part II
Life and life-enhancement as key concepts of aesthetics
Religious imagination
Aesthetic and religious: boundaries, overlaps and intrusions
Restoring the sacred: sacred as a concept of aesthetics
Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding
Values and cosmic imagination
Index.