The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Contributors: Georgia Albert (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780804735537
Subjects: Aesthetics; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Esthetics; 20th century; Philosophy / Aesthetics; Aesthetics, Modern; Art
First sentence: In the third essay of the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche subjects the Kantian definition of the beautiful as disinterested pleasure to a radical critique: Kant thought he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized and gave prominence to those which established the honor of knowledge: impersonality and universality.