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Norton's book is to be commended for casting fresh and invigorating light on the living relevance of eighteenth-century intellectual problems to one of the central preoccupations of such modern thinkers as Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Richard Rorty.

* Modern Language Review *

The Beautiful Soul is an important and fascinating book which traces the rise and fall of what Robert E. Norton takes to be one of the European Enlightenment's most characteristic ideas —that there might be an intrinsic link between ethics and aesthetics, the good and the beautiful, which manifested itself in the concept of the 'beautiful soul.'

* International Journal of the Classical Tradition *

Norton's book is a fine contribution to scholarship, one that is well worth pondering.

* The Journal of English and Germanic Philology *

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 15/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9781501768224, 978-1501768224
      ISBN10: 1501768220
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Norton's book is to be commended for casting fresh and invigorating light on the living relevance of eighteenth-century intellectual problems to one of the central preoccupations of such modern thinkers as Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Richard Rorty.

      * Modern Language Review *

      The Beautiful Soul is an important and fascinating book which traces the rise and fall of what Robert E. Norton takes to be one of the European Enlightenment's most characteristic ideas —that there might be an intrinsic link between ethics and aesthetics, the good and the beautiful, which manifested itself in the concept of the 'beautiful soul.'

      * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *

      Norton's book is a fine contribution to scholarship, one that is well worth pondering.

      * The Journal of English and Germanic Philology *

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