دانلود کتاب Beyond Beauty

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Beauty and the Twentieth Century
Does Beauty Have a History?
A History of Beauty
In Myth, Beyond Myth
The Spectre of Beauty
Chapter I. The Romantic Farewell to Beauty
The Airy Premises of a Necessary Catastrophe
Form, Style, Entropy
Decorum and Expression
Chapter II. The Non-containing Form: From Nietzsche to Spengler
Mimesis and Descriptive Knowledge
From Goethe to Dilthey
Nietzsche and the Decline of Form
From Nietzsche to Goethe and Beyond
Spengler and Beyond
Apollo vs. Faust
Chapter III. From Modernity to the Avant-Garde
The Gothic Style and the Avant-Garde
Expressionism and the Gothic Style
From Goethe to Worringer and Beyond
Croce: An Enemy of the Avant-Garde?
Chapter IV. From Negativity to the Event: Adorno after Heidegger
Philosophy of Art as Rearguard
Adorno: From Negative Dialectics to Aesthetic Utopia
A Hopeless Hope
From Adorno to Benjamin, from Jünger to Heidegger
Chapter V. The Dissolution of the Artwork and the Rebirth of Ancient Beauty
Aesthetics as Energetics
From Philosophy to Surrealism
“The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty . . .”
“High and Low”
Conclusion. Classicism, Again
Enlightenment without “Nostos”
An “Ecological” Thought
Notes
Bibliography
Index