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More of an outline, actually, I guess.
Ch. - History
(Philosophical. Poetic. Artistic. Theoretical. Critical. Schools. Ages. Aristotle to Ayn Rand, Plato to Proverbs, Jung and Marx and every Renaissance playwright.)
Ch. - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
(Visual privileging. Beauty in the arts. Word v. visual v. everything else. Transferance of beauty to purely visual media.)
Ch. - Beauty is truth, truth beauty
(Subjective v. objective opinions and judgments. Cultural/moral relativism. Eroticising/gendering/sexualising beauty.)
Ch. - Beauty and the Beast
(Beauty v. horror. Deconstruction of the binary. Dialectical exploration.)
Ch. - Endgame or Catch-22?
(Sontag. Manifesto. Means and methods. Results. Why the need?)