Love and Beauty

by Guy Sircello

Book Overview

Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "bear" beauty and the pleasure of all love is "erotic," without being "sexual." The theory reveals a continuity of subject matter between premodern notions of love and modern notions of aesthetic pleasure, thus providing grounds for criticizing modern tendencies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603456
• ISBN13: 9780691603452
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"