Beauty – A Brief Conceptual Journey

Martin Seel

doi:10.58519/aesthinv.v1i1.12016

Beauty – A Brief Conceptual Journey

Authors

Martin Seel Goethe Universität, Frankfurt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v1i1.12016

Keywords:

beauty

Abstract

The first part of the essay deals with four dimensions of aesthetic attraction in an attempt to provide a notion of beauty that is rich and robust enough to apply to different sorts and objects of aesthetic praise, including the productions of modern and contemporary arts. The second part confronts this apology of beauty with a number of test cases such as the ugly, the horrible and the sublime, including a discussion of putative couterexamples such as the films of Michael Haneke and the novels of Imre Kertész.

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Published

2015-07-16

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1

Section

Fresh

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