Aesthetics, vol. I

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

Publisher:

Hildebrand Project

, 2016

Overview

Written in the early 1970s during the last years of his life, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection, Aesthetics is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s comprehensive two-volume study and defense of beauty and art.

Praise for the Print Edition

Dietrich von Hildebrand understood the centrality of beauty not merely to art but to philosophy, theology, and ethics. In his ambitious and comprehensive Aesthetics, now translated into English for the first time, Hildebrand rehabilitates the concept of beauty as an objective rather and purely subjective phenomenon. His systematic account renews the Classical and Christian vision of beauty as a reliable mode of perception that leads humanity toward the true, the good, and ultimately the divine. There is no more important issue in our culture—sacred or secular—than the restoration of beauty. And there is no better place to start this urgent enterprise than Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics.

—Dana Gioia

Product Details

• Title: Aesthetics, Volume I
• Author: Dietrich von Hildebrand
• Volume: I
• Publisher: Hildebrand Project
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 470
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Von Hildebrand, Dietrich, 1889-1977
• ISBNs: 9781939773043, 1939773040
• Resource ID: LLS:ESTHETCS01
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:40:11Z

About Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand (October 12, 1889 – January 26, 1977) was a German Catholic philosopher and theologian who was called (informally) by Pope Pius XII “the 20th Century Doctor of the Church. ” Pope John Paul II greatly admired the work of von Hildebrand, remarking once to von Hildebrand’s widow, Alice von Hildebrand, “Your husband is one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century.