For the love of beauty : art, history, and the moral foundations of aesthetic judgment /: art, history, and the moral foundations of aesthetic judgment. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arthur Pontynen.
• Other Names: Pontynen, Arthur
• Contents: Art history and the cultural amnesia of modernity and postmodernity -- Classicism : the nature of beauty, the fragility of goodness -- The Laocoön : the challenge of tragedy and the metaphysics of Plotinus -- The Judeo-Christian tradition : aesthetics and beauty reconciled -- The Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque : from a qualitative to a quantitative universe -- The modernist-postmodernist tradition : the subjective-objectivity of the "Enlightenment" and the decline of beauty -- Ways of worldmaking : Nietzsche's rebirth of tragedy -- Western culture at the crossroads : the history of art and the postmodern eschaton -- Subject, object, and responsible freedom in the pursuit of beauty.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Subjects: 701/.17; Aesthetics; Ästhetik -- Aufsatzsammlung; Ästhetik; Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Aesthetics, Modern; Art -- Philosophy; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351519632; 1351519638
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.