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The Metaphysics of Beauty /

"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, part...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zangwill, Nick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Dependence. Ch. 1. The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy. Ch. 2. The Concept of the Aesthetic. Ch. 3. Aesthetic Supervenience Defended
  • pt. 2. Formalism. Ch. 4. Feasible Aesthetic Formalism. Ch. 5. In Defense of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism. Ch. 6. Defusing Anti-Formalist Arguments. Ch. 7. Formal Natural Beauty. Ch. 8. Aesthetic/Sensory Dependence
  • pt. 3. Realism. Ch. 9. Hume, Taste, and Teleology. Ch. 10. Metaphor and Realism in Aesthetics. Ch. 11. Skin-Deep or in the Eye of the Beholder? Ch. 12. Differences.