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The Experience of Beauty
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“The Experience of Beauty: Seven Essays and a Dialogue” Reviewed by Publishers Weekly
Harry Underwood’s new release The Experience of Beauty: Seven Essays and a Dialogue was reviewed last week by Publishers Weekly.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
“In this essay collection, Underwood aims to define beauty as a functional experience that shapes people’s daily lives, as well as a philosophical concept with meaning that can enrich human development. He believes that subjectivity muddles beauty as an experience, rendering it hard for people to know it when they see it. “Our sense of beauty,” he writes, “reflects what we have already managed to make of ourselves… and it will in turn contribute to shaping us.” Throughout these essays, Underwood ruminates over art as an expression of beauty.”
The Experience of Beauty
Seven Essays and a Dialogue
By Harry Underwood
An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.
The notion of beauty as a point of transit between the sensuous and the ideal is well-established in the history of Western philosophy. Describing this transition and seeking to rethink the ways in which humans understand the things they find beautiful in life, Harry Underwood’s The Experience of Beauty approaches the notion of beauty through the insights of major but distinctively individual philosophers and artists. Read more>
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