Only a promise of happiness : the place of beauty in a world of art / Alexander Nehamas.

"Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the...

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Main Author: Nehamas, Alexander, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
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