SIX NAMES OF BEAUTY

Book ID/图书代码： 11708105B06182

English Summary/英文概要： Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it’s also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek’s ’to kalon’, the Japanese idea of ’wabi-sabi’, Hebrew’s ’yapha’, the Navajo concept ’hozho’, Sanskrit ’sundara’, and our own English-language ’beauty’. Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. The earthy and the exalted, the imperfect and the ideal: things, spaces, high art, sounds, aromas, nothingness. Sartwell writes about handfuls of beautiful things - among them, a Japanese teapot and Diana Rigg as Mrs Emma Peel, the pleasure in a well-used hammer and in pop music and in Vermeer’s ’Girl in a Red Hat’. In Sartwell’s hands these six names of beauty - and there could be thousands more - are revealed as simple and profound ideas about our world and our selves. ’Crispin Sartwell has written a classic book on experiencing the world aesthetically. It is rich with real examples and personal knowledge of the way each of the six names of beauty discloses a different mode of beauty’s meaning in human life. The book has the clarity and acuity of philosophy at its best, without jargon or dogma or the kind of heaviness that typically weighs down the discussion of what should be marvellous to think about. I enjoyed it greatly, and would recommend it as an antidote to those that believe aesthetics is marginal or minor, and a treat for those who realize that beauty is what gives value to life at its best.’ - - Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, and author of The Abuse of Beauty

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美丽在别人的眼中，也在我们应用的语言中，在我们周围的一切地方。在本书中作者深入地思考了什么是美丽，他分别用6个词来概括，这六个词分别来自古希腊语，日本语，西波来语，纳瓦霍语，还有英语，每一个词都是我们理解另一种语言关于美丽的的窗口。在作者的笔下，六个关于美丽的名字，也许还有很多的名字揭示了生活的本质。

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