Beauty Reinstated

By Anastasiοs Moumtzoglou

Beauty has been displaced as the essential quality of art. Kant led the way by elevating the sublime as an independent and equal aspect of art. With the advent of Romanticism, the sublime came to replace beauty as the stronger of the two. Moreover, the banishing of beauty from the humanities in the last two decades has been carried out by a set of political complaints. One of them holds that beauty simply distracts us from attending to social ills. The second critique is based on the notion that a gaze is inherently asymmetrical.
Recently, it seems, beauty has been recovering from the stigma of being politically incorrect and is making something of a comeback in writings on art and culture. In this context, the ancient Greek conception of beauty may help to show how beauty, suitably understood and delimited, can cohabit with other, equally important aesthetic values. In aesthetics, there is room for beauty, as a feature of art (Konstan, 2014).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anastasiοs Moumtzoglou
• Release date: Oct 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9789609385428

Anastasiοs Moumtzoglou

Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou is a Former Executive Board Member of the European Society for Quality in Health Care, President of the Hellenic Society for Quality & Safety in Health Care, holds B.A in Economics, MA in Health Services Management, MA in Macroeconomics, Ph.D. in Economics. He teaches the module of quality at the graduate and postgraduate level. He has also written three Greek books, which are the only ones in the Greek references. The first deals with “Marketing in Health Care”, the following with “Quality in Health Care” and the third with “Quality and Patient Safety in Health Care”. He has edited the books “E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards”, “E-health Technologies & Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors”, “Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery”, and “Laboratory Management Information Systems: Current Requirements and Future Perspectives”. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the “Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration” book series and the International Journal of Reliable & Quality in Healthcare (IJRQEH). He has also served as the scientific coordinator in research programs in Greece and participated as a researcher in European research programs. In 2004, he was declared “Person of Quality”, with respect to Greece.

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Beauty Reinstated

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Anastasius Moumtzoglou

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ISBN: 978-960-93-8542-8

Text & Photos: Anastasius Moumtzoglou

Cover Design: Anastasius Moumtzoglou & George Kouvelis

This book is gratefully dedicated to my mother Maria Moumtzoglou

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE