The Genealogy of Aesthetics

by Ekbert Faas

Is it body or spirit that makes us appreciate beauty and create art? The distinguished Canadian critic Ekbert Faas argues that, with occasional exceptions like Montaigne and Mandeville, the mainstream of western thinking about beauty from Plato onwards has greatly overemphasized the spirit. This study redresses this imbalance, and offers a radical re-reading of thinkers like Plato, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida. Professor Faas attacks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521811821
• ISBN13: 9780521811828
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"