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The Metaphysics of Beauty

Hardcover • 2001 • English • 1. edition

The Metaphysics of Beauty

By Nick Zangwill

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About the book

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, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of thing...Show more

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Philosophy: aesthetics

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ISBN

9780801438202

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Metaphysics of Beauty

Format

Hardcover

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