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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art by Alexander Nehamas

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Alexander Nehamas

200 pages paperback 2007

2 editions

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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