University Press of America
Pages: 288
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-1526-6 • Paperback • December 1999 • $76.99 • (£59.00)
William Cooney is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, International University, Florida.
chapter 1 Introduction: The Philosophical Attitude and The Gift of Existence
chapter 2 The Nature, Tasks, and Branches of Philosophy
chapter 3 Plato: Philosophy and the Arts, and the Need for Control
chapter 4 Aristotle: The Arts and the Human Person
chapter 5 From Augustine and Aquinas to Leonardo and Michelangelo: Coming out of the Aesthetic Dark Ages
chapter 6 Rousseau and the Romantics: The Role of Feeling in the Arts
chapter 7 Kierkegaard and Nietzche: The Art of Creating the Individual
chapter 8 Marcel and Sartre: On the Nature of Creation, Human and Divine
chapter 9 The Challenge of Postmodernism
chapter 10 Mozart and Beethoven: Two Faces of Creative Genius
chapter 11 Emily Dickinson: A Poetic Genius Looks at Death
chapter 12 Vincent Van Gogh: Risking My Life for My Art
chapter 13 Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
chapter 14 Frank Lloyd Wright: Creative Force of Nature
chapter 15 Carl Jung: On Psychology and Art
chapter 16 Conclusion: The Quest for Meaning as an End-in-Itself
The Chapters on Kierkegaard and Nietzche, Marcel and Sartre are really special. The distinction drawn between curiosity (problem) and metaphysical uneasiness (mystery) and the relation of the latter to the nature of human creativity is stunning.
— Albert Randal, professor of philosophy, Austin Peay State University