Overview
- Explains the relation of beauty and human existence
- Explores the various aspects of beauty:
- Beauty as fulfilment of humanness
- Beauty uplifting the experience of life
- Beauty as the existential force of human condition
Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 97)
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Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess?
The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section I
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Section III
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Section IV
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beauty's Appeal
Book Subtitle: Measure and Excess
Editors: Anna-teresa Tymieniecka
Series Title: Analecta Husserliana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6521-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7658-8Published: 11 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6521-7Published: 03 November 2007
Series ISSN: 0167-7276
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 296
Topics: Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Man