The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138726659)

This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within art and aesthetic experience generally), superficiality and depth in aesthetic appreciation of nature, moral beauty and ugliness, the projects of integrating a life, of fashioning a life as a work of art, experiments in the aesthetic re-working of the 'sacred', the role of imagination within religion and in our attempts to place and identify ourselves within the cosmos. The essays are both interlinked and distinct, allowing them to be read in any order, and providing useful themes for discussion groups and seminars. The author aims to arouse in the reader something of his enjoyment in unravelling the connections of ideas that come into view when one approaches aesthetics in its widest setting.

Author: Ronald W. Hepburn
ISBN-10: 1138726656
ISBN-13: 9781138726659
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2019
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.60d