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Beauty's Appeal

Measure and Excess

  • Explains the relation of beauty and human existence
  • Explores the various aspects of beauty:
  • Beauty as fulfilment of humanness
  • Beauty uplifting the experience of life
  • Beauty as the existential force of human condition

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 97)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Section I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Eros/Kalon/Agathos

      • Lawrence Kimmel
      Pages 3-12
    3. The Beautiful Recollected

      • Gabriel Hindin
      Pages 13-19
    4. Art After Beauty

      • John Baldacchino
      Pages 21-32
    5. The Semantics of Beauty

      • Piero Trupia
      Pages 33-64
  3. Section II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. The Aesthetics of Possibility

      • Maria GoŁaszewska
      Pages 67-74
    3. Aesthetization of Aesthetic Values?

      • Mariola Sułkowska
      Pages 75-84
    4. Shattering Beauty

      • Valerie Reed, Max Statkiewicz
      Pages 85-102
    5. From Perfect Beauty to a Conscious Life

      • Victor Gerald Rivas
      Pages 103-126
    6. Von Hildebrands, Father and Son, and the Beautiful

      • Robert D. Sweeney
      Pages 127-135
  4. Section III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Measure or Excess

      • Raymond J. Wilson III
      Pages 139-154
    3. Measure and Excess

      • Brian Grassom
      Pages 155-163
    4. Harmonious Balance

      • Tung-I Dow
      Pages 165-172
  5. Section IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. The Theater of the Absurd and Reality

      • Maciej Kaluza
      Pages 183-186
    3. Too Much Is Never Enough

      • Patricia Trutty Coohill
      Pages 187-194

About this book

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 the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess?

The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Phenomenological Institute, Hanover, U.S.A

    Anna-teresa Tymieniecka

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