Guy Sircello
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| + | '''Guy Sircello''' (1936–1992) was an American philosopher best known for his [[analytic philosophy|analytic]] approach to philosophical [[aesthetics]]. | ||
| - | The 20th century saw an increasing rejection of beauty by artists and philosophers alike, culminating in [[postmodernism]]'s [[anti-aesthetics]]. This is despite beauty being a central concern of one of postmodernism's main influences, [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], who argued that the [[Will to Power]] was the [[Will to Beauty]]. | + | ===Selected Works=== |
| + | '''Books by Guy Sircello''' | ||
| + | * ''Mind & Art: An Essay on the Varieties of Expression''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. Paperback, 1978. | ||
| + | * ''[[A New Theory of Beauty]]''. Princeton Essays on the Arts, 1. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. | ||
| + | * ''Love and Beauty''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. | ||
| - | In the aftermath of postmodernism's rejection of beauty, thinkers have returned to beauty as an important value. American analytic philosopher [[Guy Sircello]] proposed his New Theory of Beauty as an effort to reaffirm the status of beauty as an important philosophical concept. | + | '''Selected Articles not in UCI's bibliography''' |
| + | * "Beauty and Anti-Beauty in Literature and its Criticism." ''Midwest Studies In Philosophy'', 16: 104–122. | ||
| + | * "How Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?" ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'', Vol. 51, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 541–550 | ||
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Guy Sircello (1936–1992) was an American philosopher best known for his analytic approach to philosophical aesthetics.
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Selected Works
Books by Guy Sircello
- Mind & Art: An Essay on the Varieties of Expression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. Paperback, 1978.
- A New Theory of Beauty. Princeton Essays on the Arts, 1. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.
- Love and Beauty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Selected Articles not in UCI's bibliography
- "Beauty and Anti-Beauty in Literature and its Criticism." Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 16: 104–122.
- "How Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?" The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 541–550
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