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Dallas, E. S.

 
9781330136522: The Gay Science, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Explore how art pleases and teaches, and why pleasure lies at the heart of criticism. This concise volume surveys the long debate on the purpose of art, arguing that pleasure is a central, unifying aim across the arts. It contrasts different schools of criticism and explains how music, poetry, painting, and sculpture relate to truth, imagination, and feeling.

In careful,Accessible language, the author traces how critics from Greek to English traditions have treated art as more than mere copy or technique. You’ll see why the idea that art exists to delight has shaped literary and visual criticism for centuries, and how this view evolves in modern thought.


  • Grounds the claim that pleasure is essential to understanding art.

  • Compares the roles of imagination, knowledge, and technique across art forms.

  • Outlines major schools of criticism and their views on the end and value of art.

  • Highlights the tension between truth, beauty, and enjoyment in creative work.



Ideal for readers of philosophy, literary criticism, and art history who want a clear map of art’s aims and the enduring question: what makes art truly valuable?

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Excerpt from The Gay Science, Vol. 1

Chapter science of magnifying and vilifying. I hope 1° before I have finished this work to trace See Chew more accurately than has yet been done the dividing line between science and art; but, ln the meantime, there is no doubt that poetry must take rank among the arts, and that the name of science in connection with it must be reserved for the critical theory of its processes and of its influence in the world. Such is the sense in which the word is used upon the title.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Gay Science, Vol. 1

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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