title: Why beauty and why now? Historical perspectives of the contemporary discourse on beauty
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metadata.value: Kvokačka, Adrián
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metadata.value: 2018-12-21T14:07:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-21T14:07:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Kvokačka A. Why beauty and why now? Historical perspectives of the contemporary discourse on beauty. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 4, pp. 515–522.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu17.2018.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15191
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The term “beauty” has been a key category of aesthetic thinking for a long time. Relevancy of
  beauty of art, represented in ancient times by Plato’s transcendental theory of beauty or more
  factual inductive beauty of empirically oriented Aristotle and many others thinkers, placed
  beauty as a priority category of the world, including the world of art. Modern approaches primarily
  follow Kantian and Hegelian idealistic aesthetics of beauty, however, the state of today’s
  art world, or in the broader context, the aesthetic world of the 20th century, doubt beauty and
  even dethrone it from its pedestal. Does it make sense today to examine about beauty of art?
  Has beauty as an attribute of art not ended its journey together with the idea of the end of art?
  The paper aims to follow the connotations of beauty losing its place in art in the context of the
  end of art (Hegel and Danto) or end of its history (Belting). Contemporary new thematization
  of beauty after a century dominated by the ugly or the sublime in art (from Kant’s and
  Lyotard’s point of view) is an important shift showing beauty not only as a remnant of history
  but rather as a vital source that is worthily gaining renewed attention and new varieties with
  the spread of interdisciplinary approaches.
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metadata.value: This paper was supported by VEGA Grant Agency under the contract No. 1/0531/17 150 Years of
  “The End of Art” in Reflections and Analysis of Philosophical, Aesthetic and Art Theories.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: aesthetics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: end of art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: beauty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Why beauty and why now? Historical perspectives of the contemporary discourse on beauty
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metadata.value: Article
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