Arts of the Beautiful

by Etienne Gilson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564782502
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Series:	Dalkey Archive Scholarly
Edition description:	1ST DALKEY
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	5.49(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James G. Colbert is a philosophy professor at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He is the author or co-author of books on symbolic logic, Marxism, and the family. Colbert has translated six books, including Gilson's Greco-Arabic Sources of Avicennist Augustinianism.

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We find here the classic French sharpness of perception and analysis.

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A very difficult, original, highly stimulating book.

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