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Aesthetic motive,
136 pages, Paperback
First published October 12, 2011
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July 1, 2021
*I found the book at the hotel I was working at last night. I needed something to read so I picked this book off the purely decorative shelves (with its "old library" aesthetic of old, worn, and simple hardbacks).*
Bold and unorthodox by today's reckoning. Schneider, rightly parsing out beauty and goodness (that is, aesthetic value and moral value) argues that beauty is "unity in variety." Even if she's wrong in her central thesis (and I'm not quite sure she isn't), she's right to question the some conventional thinking on the nature and purpose of art and beauty. Those conventions, which were apparently popular enough in her own time (this book was published in 1939, I believe), have only gotten more popular. In my view, this book, or at least these ideas, could be taken a little more seriously in today's milieu.
Bold and unorthodox by today's reckoning. Schneider, rightly parsing out beauty and goodness (that is, aesthetic value and moral value) argues that beauty is "unity in variety." Even if she's wrong in her central thesis (and I'm not quite sure she isn't), she's right to question the some conventional thinking on the nature and purpose of art and beauty. Those conventions, which were apparently popular enough in her own time (this book was published in 1939, I believe), have only gotten more popular. In my view, this book, or at least these ideas, could be taken a little more seriously in today's milieu.
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