{"product_id":"black-is-beautiful-by-paul-c-taylor-9781405150637","title":"Black is Beautiful","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack is Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTakes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnites two areas of scholarship for the first time – philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another – from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology – producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack is Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e was the winner of The American Society of Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595802427628,"sku":"9781405150637","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/83396b57d8888c248090e7f427730059.jpg?v=1777933748","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/black-is-beautiful-by-paul-c-taylor-9781405150637","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}