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The Sense of Beauty: (Record no. 9129)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0486202380
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency	IVS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	701.17 SAN
Edition information	23
Item number	14173
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Santayana, George
245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The Sense of Beauty:
Remainder of title	Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory/
Statement of responsibility, etc.	by George Santayana
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Dover Publications
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	1955
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	168 p.
Dimensions	5.39 x 0.39 x 8.54 inches
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Part I. The Nature of Beauty, Part II. The Materials of Beauty, Part III. Form, Part IV. Expression.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	"From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality of prose that is as wondrous as what he had to say. Indeed, his summation remains a flawless classical statement. "Beauty seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty. Be'auty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good."The editor of this new edition, John McGormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this, aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that resides in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life. The work is written without posturing, without hectoring. Santayana is nonetheless able to give expression to strong views. His preferences are made perfectly plain. Perhaps the key is a powerful belief that beauty is an adornment not a material necessity. But that does mean art is trivial. Quite the contrary, the good life is precisely the extent to which such "adornments" as painting, poetry or music come to define the lives of individuals and civilizations alike. This is, in short, a major work that can still inform and move us a century after its first composition."--Provided by publisher
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Aesthetics
Form subdivision	philosophy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	beauty
Form subdivision	American literature
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Koha item type	Book
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
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10/26/2021		701.17 SAN	14173	10/26/2021	Book				Fine Arts		Marium Abdulla Library	Marium Abdulla Library	Non-Ref	04/05/2019	Madiha Aijaz	800.00

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