Six names of beauty [[electronic resource] /] / Crispin Sartwell
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| Autore: |
Sartwell Crispin <1958->
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| Titolo: |
Six names of beauty [[electronic resource] /] / Crispin Sartwell
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (130 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 111/.85 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics, Comparative |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | 08.41 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Beauty (English), the object of longing -- Yapha (Hebrew), glow, bloom -- Sundara (Sanskrit), holiness -- To Kalon (Greek), idea, ideal -- Wabi-Sabi (Japanese), humility, imperfection -- Hozho (Navajo), health, harmony. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's 'to kalon', the Japanese idea of 'wabi-sabi', Hebrew's 'yapha', the Navajo concept 'hozho', Sanskrit 'sundara', and our own English-language 'beauty'. Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. The earthy and the exalted, the imper |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Six names of beauty |
| ISBN: | 0-415-97992-7 |
| 1-280-15818-2 | |
| 0-203-49668-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450708603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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