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The book (Beauty and Transcendence - Cognitive Aesthetics in Literature and the Arts) authored by the American philosopher Patrick Colm Hogan and translated by Dr. Basil Al-Masalma presents one's personal experience of beauty and transcendence and the distinction between what we judge to be beautiful in itself and what we experience as beautiful.
The book, issued by the Syrian General Book Organization, focuses on describing and explaining personal or experiential beauty. It derives its material from two main sources, the first is empirical research in cognitive and emotional sciences, and the second is from works of art. It examines visions derived from philosophical aesthetics to provide answers to long-standing questions about beauty and transcendence.
The book discusses the importance of aesthetic response and the role that personal beauty and transcendence play in defining art and to address these issues and then research the work of authors and artists such as Dolph, Darton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse, Keran and others.
The book, which came in 510 sheets of large pieces, included 7 basic chapters, beginning with an opening chapter that distinguishes beauty in the public eye from personal beauty, introducing the comprehensive principles of beauty derived from the operation of the human mind.
The second chapter, titled (Aesthetic Postulates and Diversity of Taste), moves from comprehensiveness to diversity, indicating that our interpretation of beauty can be over-predictable or based on differences from one person to another.
The third chapter explores the criteria of artistic orientation in defining the elements of beauty through two works by the plastic artist Henri Matisse and a poem by the poet Lorca and the commonalities between them.
The book returns in the fourth chapter entitled (Reconsidering the aesthetic response and the dilemmas of beauty and transcendence) to the general theoretical issue, seeking to explain its components in a more comprehensive way by asking questions about what emotions can participate in beauty and sublimation and their relationship to each other and the relationship between personal beauty and beauty In the eyes of the general public.
The fifth chapter (My Problem with Othello - Prestige, Evaluation, and Aesthetic Response) expands the consideration of the relationships between judgments on beauty in the public eye and the individual aesthetic response. The tragedy of choosing beauty.
As for the sixth chapter (what is the aesthetic argument), it deals with the issue of errors and characteristics in determining the foundations of beauty on a more abstract level and seeks to organize the evaluation principles that one might rationally cite in favor of or against a particular aesthetic response. This chapter also focuses on that the purpose of any aesthetic argument is to restore Considering a value that results in a variable aesthetic.
The final chapter (Art and Beauty) of the book begins by noting that there is a difference in the criteria by which one can classify a work as art. The closing word on the book summarizes some key themes and continues to argue that anti-beauty works challenge the description of beauty and art.
It is noteworthy that Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English in the Cognitive Sciences Program and the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Connecticut and has authored about 17 scientific books.
As for Dr. and researcher Basil Al-Masalma, he holds a PhD in modern poetry from Britain and has many translated books.
Rasha Mahfoud