Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess (Analecta Husserliana, 97)

"Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess? The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above. Papers by: Brian Grassom, Lawrence Kimmel, Gabriel Hindin, John Baldachino, Piero Trupia, Maria Golaszewska, Mariola Sulkowska, Valerie Reed, Max Statkiewicz, Victor Gerald Rivas, Robert D. Sweeney, Raymond J. Wilson III, Tsung-I Dow, Vladimir Marchenkov, Maciej Kaluza, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Diane G. Scillia, Bruce Ross, James Werner, Elena Stylianou, Arthur Piper, Christopher Wallace, Matti Itkonen, Munir Beken, Andrew J. Svedlow." -- Prové de l'editor Content: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A.-T. Tymieniecka THEMATIC STUDY. BEAUTY, TRUTH, ALTERITY: BEYOND CAUSE AND EFFECT B. Grassom. Part I. EROS / KALON / AGATHOS: LOVE, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE GOOD L. Kimmel. THE BEAUTIFUL RECOLLECTED: MEMORY AND BEAUTY IN PLATO'S PHAEDRUS G. Hindin. ART AFTER BEAUTY: VALUES BEFORE STANDARDS J. Baldacchino. THE SEMANTICS OF BEAUTY P. Trupia. Part II. THE AESTHETICS OF POSSIBILITY M. Golaszewska. AESTHETISATION OF AESTHETIC VALUES? M. Sulkowska. SHATTERING BEAUTY: RILKE'S AESTHETICS OF THE FRAGMENTARY V. Reed & M. Statkiewicz. FROM PERFECT BEAUTY TO A CONSCIOUS LIFE: AND ELUCIDATION OF THE POSTROMANTIC IMPORT OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, BASED ON HENRY JAMES'S THE SPOILS OF POYNTON V.G. Rivas. VON HILDEBRANDS, FATHER AND SON, AND THE BEAUTIFUL R.D. Sweeney. Part III. MEASURE OR EXCESS: THE UNITY OF THE AESTHETIC, THE ETHICAL, AND THE POLITICAL IN DANTE, MARLOWE, AND MOLIERE R.J. Wilson III. MEASURE AND EXCESS B. Grassom. HARMONIOUS BALANCE: ULTIMATE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY AND GOODNESS, A CONFUCIAN VIEW T.-I. Dow. THE DIALECTIC OF THE SERIOUS AND THE LUDIC IN MYTH AND ART V. Marchenkov. Part IV. THE THEATER ABSURD AND REALITY M. Kaluza. TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH P. Trutty-Coohill. MINIMALIST ART: 'LESS IS MORE' OR THE PARADOX OF BOREDOM D.G. Scillia. DANCES WITH BEARS: THE BEGINNINGS OF WESTERN ART B. Ross. Part V. THE RE-EMERGENCE OF BEAUTY IN CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGY J. Werner & E. Stylianou. BEAUTY AND TRUTH IN SCIENCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY A. Piper. ACTION AND THE OPEN WORK C. Waace. LIVED WORDS RE-VISITED: THE OPACITY OF THE TRANSPARENT A TIME DWELLER'S VOYAGE IN THE WORLD OF THE TITANIC FILM M.Itkonen. IMPENETRABLE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND VALUE IN ACADEMIC MUSIC COMPOSITION M. Beken. HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF MARK ROTHKO'S PAINTING A.J. Svedlow. Index of Names Software is rarely built completely from scratch. To a great extent, existing software documents (source code, design documents, etc.) are copied and adapted to fit new requirements. Yet we are far from the goal of making reuse the standard approach to software development. Software reuse is the process of creating software systems from existing software rather than building them from scratch. Software reuse is still an emerging discipline. It appears in many different forms from ad-hoc reuse to systematic reuse, and from white-box reuse to black-box reuse. Many different products for reuse range from ideas and algorithms to any documents that are created during the software life cycle. Source code is most commonly reused; thus many people misconceive software reuse as the reuse of source code alone. Recently source code and design reuse have become popular with (object-oriented) class libraries, application frameworks, and design patterns. Software components provide a vehicle for planned and systematic reuse. The software community does not yet agree on what a software component is exactly. Nowadays, the term component is used as a synonym for object most of the time, but it also stands for module or function. Recently the term component-based or component-oriented software development has be­ come popular. In this context components are defined as objects plus some­ thing. What something is exactly, or has to be for effective software develop­ ment, remains yet to be seen. However, systems and models are emerging to support that notion. Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. This collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of the Human Condition. It endeavors to explain the relation of beauty and human existence, and explores the various aspects of beauty. The book provides a clear understanding of what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, the activities, and its different forms. The reader is also given an overview of what sofware components are, different kinds of components and compositions, a taxonomy thereof, and examples of successful component reuse.