This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
Distributed for Seagull Books
Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson
- Contents

1. Beautiful, the Beautiful
2. The Beautiful: Exercises in Philosophy
3. In the Rut of an Impossible Definition
4. Statement: China Has Not Been Aware of the Monopolization of the Beautiful
5. What Do We Lose Owing to the Beautiful
6. The Beautiful: Lynchpin of Metaphysics
7. Separation-Medication: On What the Beautiful Is Perched
8. To” Transmit the Spirit’ through the Tangible
9. Beauty Comes from Form
10. Or To Paint the Transformation
11. Variety or Variance
12. Essence/Valency
13. Resemblance/Resonance
14. Presence/Pregnancy
15. About the Nude or Beauty
16. The ‘Beautiful Representation of a Thing’
17. ‘How Beautiful’, or What Can I do but ‘Judge’?
18. Is It a Matter of Pleasure?
19. Democracy of the Beautiful
20. The Dread of the Beautiful
21. The Beautiful Dead
22. The Cult of the Beautiful
23. To Be free of Beauty?
24. To Restore to Beauty Its Strangeness
Notes
Bibliography
Art: Art--General Studies
Philosophy: General Philosophy
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