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Being for Beauty - Aesthetic Agency and Value (Hardcover)
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Being for Beauty - Aesthetic Agency and Value (Hardcover)
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No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as
beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well
as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon
the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest insights of
science and mathematics. For centuries, however, philosophers and
other thinkers have identified beauty with what brings pleasure.
Concerned that aesthetic hedonism has led us to question beauty's
significance, Dominic McIver Lopes offers an entirely new theory of
beauty in this volume. Beauty engages us in action, in concert with
others, in the context of social networks. Lopes's 'network theory'
explains the social dimension of aesthetic agency, the tie between
beauty and pleasure, the importance of disagreement in matters of
taste, and the reality of aesthetic values as denizens of the
natural world. The two closing chapters shed light on why aesthetic
engagement is so important to quality of life, and why it deserves
(and gets) lavish public support. Being for Beauty offers a fresh
contribution to aesthetics but also to thinking about
metanormativity, the metaphysics of value, and virtue theory.
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