What are some books that talk about aesthetic beauty from a philosophically perspective.
Phaedrus
>>8830803
literally all of them.
most overdone subject ever
none of them grasp beauty's wholeness
Like all books on aesthetics since 1750
Make sure you read these
·Kant's "Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime"
·Wilde's preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
·Blake's "All Religions Are One" and "There is No Natural Religion"
>>8830813
>none of them grasp beauty's wholeness
t. young try hard
>>8830813
>none of them grasp beauty's wholeness
true, its wholeness is one of the top five most ungrasped things about beauty
it's so fucking whole, autistic analytics will never see
>>8830803
Walter Pater's books.
>>8830860
don't forget my diary desu
>>8830912
probably, i just really like beauty, man. I haven't seen a description i'm comfortable with. Biggest issue with it is the idea of an object with hard boundaries, which i think cramps any discussion on radiance and blah blah blah.
yeah, i'm a try-hard but whateverr
Republic
Burke, "On the Sublime and Beautiful"
Winckelmann, "Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture"
Lessing, "Laocoon"
Kant, "Critique of Judgment"
Death in Venice
Temple of the Golden Pavillion + Forbidden Colours