The Revival Of Beauty

Author : Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : ART
ISBN : 1003387284

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The Revival of Beauty by Catherine Wesselinoff Pdf

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement and the 21st-century Beauty Revival movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author's view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty--denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

Author : Christopher Hopkins
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780757306341

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Staging Your Comeback by Christopher Hopkins Pdf

The "Makeover Guy" helps women recognize and fix problems that they confront as they age, in a practical guide that offers simple tips and tricks for women to target their problem areas, create their own self-expression, and turn around all-too-common mistakes. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000933901

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The Revival of Beauty by Catherine Wesselinoff Pdf

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400847358

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On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry Pdf

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.

Author : Dave Beech
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0262512386

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Beauty by Dave Beech Pdf

Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art.

Author : Russell Smiley
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490874715

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The Last Revival by Russell Smiley Pdf

God has a plan. As the end approaches, God readies His people to be a powerful force, moving and ministering all over the earth. His church is going to shine brightest in the darkness! Here is how ...

Author : Kim Meeder
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601422040

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Fierce Beauty by Kim Meeder Pdf

True beauty is not about how you look… but how you live. Women are constantly bombarded with the lie that how we look is far more important than who we are. It’s time for a clarion call back to the truth. Journey with gifted storyteller Kim Meeder as she encourages women to see that true value is defined by our Creator and that our worth has a purpose of eternal proportions. Real beauty isn’t a look, it’s an action. It can be found by making one crucial, life-defining choice—to lay down personal ambitions and selfish desires, pick up your sword of encouragement, and fight for those who are losing their battle for hope. As you do, fierce beauty is revealed—along with lasting value, fulfillment, and joy. In Fierce Beauty, Kim shares inspiring true stories from her own life of adventure, love, and loss—including her parents’ shocking death when she was nine years old and her struggles with self acceptance, knowing God, and standing for Him. Through it all, you’ll discover life lessons about trust, transformation, surrender, forgiveness, and genuine purpose. Ultimately, life comes down to one question: Will you serve yourself or your King? Includes discussion guide for individuals or groups. “You were not created to be a princess of entitlement but a warrior, fighting to bring love and hope to the world.” – Kim Meeder

Author : Julia Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317635239

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Hegel on Beauty by Julia Peters Pdf

While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical development. Her careful analysis of Hegel’s notion of beauty not only has crucial implications for our understanding of the ‘end of art’ and Hegel’s aesthetics in general, but also sheds light on other fields of Hegel’s philosophy, in particular his anthropology and aspects of his ethical thought.

Author : James Keating
Publisher : American Maritain Association
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997220538

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Restoring Ancient Beauty by James Keating Pdf

Until recently it has been commonplace to believe that Vatican II represents a permanent sidelining of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas for theology. The documents of that council, it is said, moved away from the scholastic categories that had informed Catholic theological work since the Reformation, and most particularly since Vatican I. There is some truth to this, of course, since the council fathers preferred biblical formulations in a personalist and pastoral mode over the kinds of concepts one finds in Neo-Thomism. The effect of this shift on theological education is well known. Indeed, so swift was the change that one finds figures as different as Jacques Maritain, Karl Rahner, and Joseph Ratzinger worrying soon after the Council's conclusion that the Angelic Doctor had all but disappeared from Catholic theology. Each in his own way sought to call the Church's intellectuals back to a consideration of Aquinas to address not simply philosophical issues but those dealing with the central doctrinal mysteries of the faith. It is now clear that after decades of experimentation with various philosophical systems, a number of scholars have either found a new audience for their work or have recently discovered for themselves the ancient beauty of Aquinas' theological work. The present volume brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore the different ways in which the writings of Thomas Aquinas on Christ, grace, faith, and other properly theological themes retain their relevance, and indeed, constitute a firmer basis upon which to explore these mysteries than many recent streams of thought. Contributors include: Thomas Weinandy, OFM, Cap., David C. Schindler, Michael Torre, Jessica Murdoch, Francis Feingold, Thomas Rourke, Marie George, James Hanink, John F.X. Knasas, Heather Erb, Joshua Schultz, Anton Schaube, William Hamant, Joel Johnson, Philip Berns, Daniel Drain, Fred Boley, Justin Matchulat, and Michael Humphreys.

Author : Aaron Tabor
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781418530945

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The Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet by Aaron Tabor Pdf

A "no-brainer" system to better physical, emotional and spiritual health. Take a dynamic medical researcher and physician, pair him with his down-to-earth, straight-talking mama - and you've created the perfect writing team for The Slim and Beautiful Diet. Based on ground-breaking research, this book shares the exciting health benefits of soy along with other easy-to-implement life-enhancing beliefs, activities, thoughts and health practices in an entertaining, accessible format.

Author : Aidan Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 0852447825

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Beauty, Spirit, Matter by Aidan Hart Pdf

Author : Patricia McKeever
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452542058

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Revival of Love by Patricia McKeever Pdf

When you find yourself in the constant commotion of our world, wouldnt it be nice to reach back to the "simple" of life? What could be simpler than to love and be loved? If this appeals to you, it is because you are an integral part of a large, growing movement toward a revival of love. This is not the wrenching, candy-hearts love, but a first love of who we are and why we came here to be. Our lives are so very full and yet, at the end of the day, at the end of a goal, or at the end of a rope, we innately desire to retrace and feel a different fullness, the fullness of love. Fusing inspiration with beautiful, moving and colorful words, Patricia McKeever takes us on a Revival of Love, and reminds us of the original intent of our existence, to love.

Author : Khaled Abou El Fadl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049672317

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Conference of the Books by Khaled Abou El Fadl Pdf

Abou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on classical Muslim authors, he both traces Muslim intellectual history and also confronts questions of ethics, faith, law, politics, culture, and modern identity. He ranges over many facets of Islam in the contemporary world, exploring censorship, political oppression, terrorism, the veil and the treatment of women, marriage, parental rights, the dynamics between law and morality, the character of the prophet Muhammad, and other topics. About half the essays first appeared in The minaret magazine. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Christopher Hopkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780757398445

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Staging Your Comeback by Christopher Hopkins Pdf

Christopher Hopkins first became known as “The Makeover Guy” during his two appearances in Oprah’s over-50 makeover shows. Since then, he has dedicated his talents and passion for fashion, makeup, and hair care to this booming audience of women. In Staging Your Comeback, Hopkins champions women over 45, teaching them how to command attention by looking and feeling great. With compassion and brutal honesty, Hopkins tackles and rectifies problems that women face as they age. Hopkins’s simple tips and tricks help women create their own self-expression and turnaround common mistakes they make in fashion and hair and skin care. Some topics include: Gray or nay? Your ideal hair color Working with over-40 skin Discover your image profile Second-act ground rules Your ideal silhouette When symmetry goes south Myths and misconceptions Long hair in act two: Does it work? Managing curl What you need to know about undergarments Fads, trends, and classics

Author : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 067402172X

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In Praise of Athletic Beauty by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Pdf

This book looks beyond the usual explanations of why sports fascinates, and also strives for a language that can frame the pleasure we take in watching athletic events. Gumbrecht argues that the fascination with watching sports is probably the most popular and potent contemporary form of aesthetic experience.