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Introduction
Part I. Art between Transcendence and Historicism
1. Is Art Necessary?
2. Beauty and the Transcendence of the Ideal
3. The Historicity of the Ideal and the End of Art
Part II. The Ethical Nature of the Arts
4. Beauty, the Ideal, and Representational Art
5. The Sounds of the Ideal
6. The Ethical Function of Poetry
7. Beauty and Ornament in Architectural Styles
Part III. The Foundations of Art
8. Art and the Beauty of the Ethical Order
9. Normativity in the Arts and the Particularity of Tradition
10. Art and the Beauty of the Absolute
Notes
Bibliography
Index