Title: The beautiful soul
First published: 1995
Description: For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the "beautiful soul" was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first book in English on the subject, Robert E. Norton follows the fortunes of this cultural icon, exploring the reasons for both its initial popularity and its subsequent decline as a cultural ideal during the Enlightenment.
Subjects: Modern Aesthetics, Ethics, Modern, Soul, Aesthetics, Modern, Modern Ethics, Ethics, modern, 18th century
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: BJ311 .N67 1995