Unseen beauty: the persistence of the medieval in contemporary aesthetics = Beleza que não se vê: a persistência do medieval na estética contemporânea
The experience of beauty is no less mysterious for the aesthetician today than it was in the Middle Ages. Here I focus on the notion of 'unseen beauty' and how certain aspects of medieval philosophizing about the nature of beauty can still be of use for the contemporary aesthetician. I dra...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/145323 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/145323 |
| Summary: | The experience of beauty is no less mysterious for the aesthetician today than it was in the Middle Ages. Here I focus on the notion of 'unseen beauty' and how certain aspects of medieval philosophizing about the nature of beauty can still be of use for the contemporary aesthetician. I draw a comparison between some concepts that pervade the whole of the Medieval period - that there is a transcendent source of visible beauty, and that visible beauties function as images of the invisible beauty - with a modern conception of aesthetic experience, as it is expressed in authors like Clive Bell. |
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