Aesthetics Volume Ii Dietrich Von Hildebrand Roger Scruton John Crosby by Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Roger Scruton, John Crosby 9781939773104, 1939773105 instant download after payment.

"Hildebrand’s thinking deserves the greatest attention from philosophers today…his fine observations will surely stimulate a discussion of which we are all greatly in need." – Sir Roger Scruton.

"Dietrich von Hildebrand’s engaging studies of different art forms is a marvelous illustration of the way phenomenology is uniquely accessible to a wider readership. Here is philosophy for the sake of the world." – James K. A. Smith

“How does the beautiful evangelize? Following Dietrich von Hildebrand, we should say that the truly beautiful is an objective value, to be distinguished from what is merely subjectively satisfying. This means that the beautiful does not merely entertain; rather, it invades, chooses, and changes the one to whom it deigns to appear. It is not absorbed into subjectivity; it rearranges and redirects subjectivity, sending it on a trajectory toward the open sea of the beautiful itself.” – Bishop Robert Barron"

I am convinced that the section on music echoes not just my own experience but that of many performers striving to do justice to the works they bring to life. Whoever is looking for an aesthetic vision of the whole will find Aesthetics II deeply insightful, challenging, and encouraging." – Manfred Honeck

Written in the early 1970s during the last years of his life, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection, Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics is a uniquely encompassing work.The first volume develops an original theory of the beautiful, and the second applies that theory with tremendous breadth and attention to the various types of artwork and to many of the world’s most beloved works of art.