Only A Promise of Happiness
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Only A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (2008) is a book by Alexander Nehamas. The title is a reference to Stendhal's promise of happiness.
In this book, Nehamas disagrees with the disinterestedness of Kant and cites Plato:
"For Plato, the only reaction appropriate to beauty is eros — love*, the desire to possess it."
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