The Beautiful
The Beautiful
Vernon Lee
August 2011
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Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. This 1913 volume by Vernon Lee explores the philosophical significance of the concepts of beauty and aesthetic preference, written in terms intended to be intelligible to the lay reader.
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August 2011Paperback
9781107401662
168 pages
203 × 127 × 9 mm
0.2kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface and apology
- 1. The adjective 'beautiful'
- 2. Contemplative satisfaction
- 3. Aspects versus things
- 4. Sensations
- 5. Perception of relations
- 6. Elements of shape
- 7. Facility and difficulty of grasping
- 8. Subject and object, or, nominative and accusative
- 9. Empathy (Einfühlung)
- 10. The movement of lines
- 11. The character of shapes
- 12. From the shape to the thing
- 13. From the thing to the shape
- 14. The aims of art
- 15. Attention to shapes
- 16. Information about things
- 17. Co-operation of things and shapes
- 18. Æsthetic responsiveness
- 19. The storage and transfer of emotion
- 20. Æsthetic irradiation and purification
- 21. Conclusion (evolutional)
- Bibliography
- Index.
