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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797189703321

Autore

Sevier Christopher Scott

Titolo

Aquinas on beauty / / Christopher Scott Sevier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1254-2

0-7391-8425-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

111/.85092

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Aquinas On Beauty ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 Psychological Components of Beauty""; ""Chapter 3 Human Desire and Pleasure""; ""Chapter 4 Objective Components of Beauty""; ""Chapter 5 Comparison with Significant Influences""; ""Chapter 6 Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

Christopher Scott Sevier's Aquinas on Beauty is a very impressive piece of scholarship on a perennially interesting but notoriously mysterious and elusive subject. The author has done his homework, understood all the relevant medieval nuances of the subject, and has clearly explained and readably expressed Aquinas' major points directly and succinctly. Sevier demonstrates how Aquinas' aesthetic follows from and presupposes his metaphysics and cosmology, and clarifies the contrasts between Aquinas and modern theories of beauty. This book will be a touchstone for all subsequent investigations of