A Manifesto On Beauty
What is beauty, and why does it still matter?
In a world increasingly obsessed with appearances yet strangely hostile to depth, A Manifesto On Beauty explores what beauty once meant — and what it might mean again. Drawing on the insights of philosophers like Roger Scruton, Byung-Chul Han, Plato, Nietzsche, and Camus, this book moves through classical and contemporary thought to ask whether beauty has been flattened, emptied, or simply forgotten in our digital, image-saturated age.
It considers how beauty shapes character, awakens desire, and offers a kind of quiet defiance in the face of despair. What emerges is not a nostalgic return to aesthetic ideals, but a bold attempt to see beauty as something vital — something that can still educate the soul, resist nihilism, and affirm life.
This is a book for anyone who has ever felt haunted by a song, stilled by a painting, or pierced by a moment of inexplicable grace. It is an invitation to rediscover the serious work of beauty: to shape us, open us, and remind us that even in a world without easy meaning, something luminous remains.