Beauty’s Appeal Measure and Excess /

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tymieniecka, Anna-teresa (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
Series:Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research ; 97
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Section I
  • Eros/Kalon/Agathos
  • The Beautiful Recollected
  • Art After Beauty
  • The Semantics of Beauty
  • Section II
  • The Aesthetics of Possibility
  • Aesthetization of Aesthetic Values?
  • Shattering Beauty
  • From Perfect Beauty to a Conscious Life
  • Von Hildebrands, Father and Son, and the Beautiful
  • Section III
  • Measure or Excess
  • Measure and Excess
  • Harmonious Balance
  • The Dialectic of the Serious and the Ludic in Myth and Art
  • Section IV
  • The Theater of the Absurd and Reality
  • Too Much Is Never Enough
  • Minimalist Art
  • Dances with Bears
  • Section V
  • The Re-Emergence of Beauty in Contemporary Technology
  • Beauty and Truth in Science and Phenomenology
  • Action and the Open Work
  • Lived Words Re-Revisited
  • Impenetrable Historiography and Value in Academic Music Composition
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Mark Rothko’s Painting.