Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty

Critical Sources and Issues for a Lost Conversation

Peter Quigley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2026 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036461287 (ISBN)

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In Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, Umberto Eco asserts that Boethius (480-525 AD), experiencing the collapse of Roman civilization, was living in "an age of profound crisis, an age occupied with the destruction of seemingly irreplaceable values." In the last 120 years there has been a growing negative and corrosive energy gnawing at Western culture, a nihilism and darkness visible in the sculpture, painting, and literature, and, increasingly, in the culture at large. This book argues that a look at the previous 2500 years (from the Ancients, to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Romantics, Victorians) shows the power and significance beauty has had in shaping, enriching, and growing the best in what we call Western culture. In this regard the author takes James Hillman's (1998) question to heart: "Could the causes of major social, political, and economic issues of our time also be found in the repression of beauty?" One answer comes from Dostoevsky's character in The Idiot, who claims that "Beauty can save the world."

Peter Quigley has held professorships in the US and Europe and has recently retired as Professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, US. Before this, he was a Professor of English at Minnesota State University, US, while also serving as the Dean of the Arts and Humanities College there. While Professor of Humanities at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, US, he was awarded two Fulbright teaching and research scholarships to the University of Bergen, Norway; he later took a permanent position at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Working in the field of environmental literature, he became more interested and concerned about the diminishing role of aesthetics and beauty in critical essays and research. Publications include: The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts (2019); Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment (2018), co-edited with Scott Slovic; Housing the Environmental Imagination: Beauty, Politics and Refuge in American Nature Writing (2012), and Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words (1998). Recent invited talks: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) China, ASLE India, and Symposium for Classical Education, AZ.Quigley has served as the President of the Robinson Jeffers Association and is currently the Associate Editor for the journal, Jeffers Studies.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2026
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-13	9781036461287 / 9781036461287
Zustand	Neuware