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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction [#262]
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction [#262]
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美とは何でしょう。美しくあることはいいことでしょうか。ボッティチェッリから鳥のさえずり、モーツァルト、ターナー賞にいたるまで幅広く取り上げ、「美」が何を意味するのかを探るのはイギリスの哲学者ロジャー・スクルートン。本書は、美的感覚なくして世界を形成することはできないというスクルートンによる、美の哲学への格好の入門書です。読了後には、身の回りの美しいものに、より大きな意味を見い出すことができるでしょう。
   

  • Examines the answers to key questions in aesthetics, such as: What is beauty? Why do we value it? Is beauty good?
  • Asks whether beauty is vanishing from our world
  • This is a strongly-argued counter to the notion that judgements of beauty are purely subjective and relative, and that we can learn little from art criticism and study
  • Looks at beauty in the visual arts, in music, architecture, nature, and literature
  • Argues that our experience of beauty is rationally founded, and that beauty is a real and universal value. Scruton shows how our sense of beauty has an indispensable part to play in the way we shape our world

   
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. 

In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and examining how we can compare differing judgements of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgement to be made about beauty? Is it right to say there is more beauty in a classical temple than a concrete office block, more in a Rembrandt than in last year's Turner Prize winner? 

Forthright and thought-provoking, and as accessible as it is intellectually rigorous, this introduction to the philosophy of beauty draws conclusions that some may find controversial, but, as Scruton shows, help us to find greater sense of meaning in the beautiful objects that fill our lives.

目次: 

Preface
1: Judging beauty
2: Human beauty
3: Natural beauty
4: Everyday beauty
5: Artistic beauty
6: Taste and order
7: Art and Eros
8: The flight from beauty
9: Concluding thoughts
Notes and Further Reading

著者について: 

Roger Scruton, Research Professor, Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, Virginia
 
Roger Scruton is research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences based in Arlington, Virginia. His previous academic affiliations have been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and subsequently Professor of Philosophy and University Professor at Boston University. His published works range from academic philosophy, specialising in aesthetics, to fiction, and political and cultural commentary. They includeOn Hunting (1998), An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998), Spinoza (1998), Perictione in Colophon (2000), and England: an Elegy (2000).

"Mouthwatering design-compact, colorful, sturdy. Can travel in one's pocket." - Walks of Art, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199229758

著者: 
Roger Scruton
ページ
208 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2011年03月
シリーズ
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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction [#262]

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction [#262]

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction [#262]