Aesthetics, vol. II
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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.
Most philosophers of aesthetics content themselves with a few examples from the realm of art, and make no attempt to explore the distinct disciplines or to catalogue all the parts that contribute to the overall aesthetic effect. One purpose of this second volume, however, is to show the completeness of the artistic enterprise, and the way in which it penetrates human life in its entirety, so that the idea of beauty enters our practical activity at every point. We are seeking harmony and order in everything we do, and even if the sublime effects of the most spiritual works of art are beyond our everyday competence, we will always be motivated in our everyday activities by a fundamental need for harmony and an aversion to ugliness.
—Sir Roger Scruton
- Title: Aesthetics, Volume II
- Author: Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Volume: II
- Publisher: Hildebrand Project
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 574
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Aesthetics; Art › Philosophy; Phenomenology and art
- ISBNs: 9781939773104, 1939773105
- Resource ID: LLS:ESTHETICS02
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:40:12Z