New Theory of Beauty

by Guy Sircello

Ever since the eighteenth century, when Kant opened the floodgates of subjectivism in aesthetics, common men and philosophers alike have despaired of finding a basis for judgments about beauty. This book provides a comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectual, utilitarian, and moral beauty. The author argues that the beauty of objects can be reduced to the beauty of properties of those objects, which in turn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691019878
• ISBN13: 9780691019871
• Release Date: November 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 152 Pages