This strange idea of the beautiful /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jullien, François, 1951- (Author)
Other Authors: Richardson, Michael, 1953- (Translator), Fijałkowski, Krzysztof (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: London : Seagull Books, 2016
Series:French list.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Beautiful, the Beautiful
  • 2. The Beautiful: Exercises in Philosophy
  • 3. In the Rut of an Impossible Definition
  • 4. Statement: China Has Not Been Aware of the Monopolization of the Beautiful
  • 5. What Do We Lose Owing to the Beautiful
  • 6. The Beautiful: Lynchpin of Metaphysics
  • 7. Separation-Medication: On What the Beautiful Is Perched
  • 8. Toy Transmit the Spirit’ through the Tangible
  • 9. Beauty Comes from Form
  • 10. Or To Paint the Transformation
  • 11. Variety or Variance
  • 12. Essence/Valency
  • 13. Resemblance/Resonance
  • 14. Presence/Pregnancy
  • 15. About the Nude or Beauty
  • 16. The ‘Beautiful Representation of a Thing’
  • 17. ‘How Beautiful’, or What Can I do but ‘Judge’?
  • 18. Is It a Matter of Pleasure?
  • 19. Democracy of the Beautiful
  • 20. The Dread of the Beautiful
  • 21. The Beautiful Dead
  • 22. The Cult of the Beautiful
  • 23. To Be free of Beauty?
  • 24. To Restore to Beauty Its Strangeness.