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ISBN13: 9781645150169
if she is indeed lying
and a tragic secret are brought vividly to life
"--Bill Clinton
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art Felicitas D. Goodman ISBN13: 9781645150169Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, aesthetic pleasure. In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its
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