{"product_id":"beholden-to-beauty-keren-gorodeisky-9780197840634","title":"Beholden to Beauty: Aesthetic Value and the Authority of Pleasure","description":"Beauty surrounds us--in art that captivates, in landscapes that move us, and in countless aspects of life. Yet beauty remains philosophically puzzling. How can something so deeply tied to feeling also demand rational responsiveness? How can aesthetic value be at once personal, social, and universal? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBeholden to Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e, Keren Gorodeisky confronts these questions with rigor and insight. She argues that our sense of being beholden to beauty--and its inseparable connection to feeling--is not a paradox but a key to understanding the nature of aesthetic value. Beauty, like admirability or suffering, calls for emotional responsiveness. To be true to beauty is not merely to recognize its worth but to feel a distinctive kind of pleasure--one that belongs to a rational capacity for feeling, a core dimension of human agency. Rejecting views that reduce aesthetic value to the goodness of pleasure or the goodness of the capacity for feeling it, Gorodeisky shows that the pleasure that is responsive to beauty is not opaque to the world but rather revelatory of it. In doing so, she resolves some of the deepest puzzles about beauty, revealing it as intelligible only in light of our shared human capacity for feeling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfound, original, and elegantly argued, \u003cem\u003eBeholden to Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e offers a transformative account of why beauty matters--and why our response to it is essential to who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keren Gorodeisky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197840639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197840634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.57w x 1.30d","brand":"Keren Gorodeisky","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48807921025279,"sku":"9780197840634","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beholden-to-beauty-keren-gorodeisky-9780197840634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}