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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe 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
Table of Contentschapter 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
