Beyond Beauty
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2017
164 pages
978-1-4384-6589-0 (ISBN)
Description
Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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978-1-4384-6589-0 (9781438465890)
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Federico Vercellone is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Torino and the author of many books, including (with Olaf Breidbach) Thinking and Imagination: Between Science and Art. Sarah De Sanctis is a philosophy scholar and the translator of over fifteen philosophy books, including Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres, by Tonino Griffero and Manifesto of New Realism, by Maurizio Ferraris, both also published by SUNY Press. She has edited, with Anna Longo, Breaking the Spell: Contemporary Realism under Discussion.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Beauty and the Twentieth Century
- Does Beauty Have a History?
- A History of Beauty
- In Myth, Beyond Myth
- The Spectre of Beauty
- Chapter I. The Romantic Farewell to Beauty
- The Airy Premises of a Necessary Catastrophe
- Form, Style, Entropy
- Decorum and Expression
- Chapter II. The Non-containing Form: From Nietzsche to Spengler
- Mimesis and Descriptive Knowledge
- From Goethe to Dilthey
- Nietzsche and the Decline of Form
- From Nietzsche to Goethe and Beyond
- Spengler and Beyond
- Apollo vs. Faust
- Chapter III. From Modernity to the Avant-Garde
- The Gothic Style and the Avant-Garde
- Expressionism and the Gothic Style
- From Goethe to Worringer and Beyond
- Croce: An Enemy of the Avant-Garde?
- Chapter IV. From Negativity to the Event: Adorno after Heidegger
- Philosophy of Art as Rearguard
- Adorno: From Negative Dialectics to Aesthetic Utopia
- A Hopeless Hope
- From Adorno to Benjamin, from Jünger to Heidegger
- Chapter V. The Dissolution of the Artwork and the Rebirth of Ancient Beauty
- Aesthetics as Energetics
- From Philosophy to Surrealism
- "The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty . . ."
- "High and Low"
- Conclusion. Classicism, Again
- Enlightenment without "Nostos"
- An "Ecological" Thought
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
