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The Arts of the Beautiful

By Etienne Gilson

Book information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
2000
ISBN
1564782506, 9781564782502
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
69 MB (72037521 bytes)
Series
French literature series
Edition
Paperback
Pages
194\201
Time added
2018-12-23 09:41:24

Description

With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and philosophy, which focuses on the presence of the artist's own talent or genius, Gilson maintains that art belongs to a different category entirely, the category of "making." Gilson's intellectually stimulating meditation on the relation of beauty and art is indispensable to philosophers and artists alike. Contents ……… 7 Introduction ……… 9 1. The Arts of the Beautiful ……… 17 2. Corollaries in Esthetics ……… 35 3. Intuition, Expression, Symbolism ……… 56 4. The Poietic Arts ……… 69 5. The Poietic Being ……… 90 6. On the Threshold of Metapoietics ……… 110 7. From Demiurgism to Philistinism ……… 133 8. Art and Christianity ……… 160 Index ……… 183

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