ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1962
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

George Santayana - Reason in Art
Collier, 1962
155 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.
Volume Four of The Life of Reason

`The value of art lies in making people happy.` Starting from this succinct premise, Santayana probes the psychological and social origins of art. He illuminates its moral and ideal function, its lapses into tastelessness or affectation, and the distinctive character of its special branches. As a philosopher whose own style is superbly artistic, and who is admittedly fascinated by the poetic, Santayana presents a significant view of art as part of its broader human context.
This is the fourth book in Santayana`s monumental survey of human civilization, The Life of Reason. It may be read independently as a brilliant study of the phase of human achievement that most successfully reflects the rational art of life.

`Urbane, historical, free from fanaticism, and the expression of an exceptionally sensitive intellectual perception.`
-Bertrand Russell on The Life of Reason

In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosopher sees art as part of the broader human context, concluding that art prepares “the world to receive the soul and the soul to master the world.”

Contents

1 The Basis of Art in Instinct and Experience
2 Rationality of Industrial Art
3 Emergence of Fine Art
4 Music
5 Speech and Signification
6. Poetry and Prose
7 Plastic Construction
8 Plastic Representation
9 Justification of Art
10 The Criterion of Taste
11 Art and Happiness


Nonfiction, Philosophy, Art