Concept of the Beautiful

By Ágnes Heller

This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one modeled on Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty, and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by the likes of Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno. The most important intellectual figures to write about beauty in Western metaphysics and in the post-metaphysical age are examined in this book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739170473
• ISBN13: 9780739170472
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher