The Metaphysics of Beauty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801438202
Subjects: Philosophy; General; Metaphysics; Aesthetics
Description: "In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-Deep or in the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things.

He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty."--BOOK JACKET.