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Why Beauty Matters (2009)

Name: Why Beauty Matters
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009

Director not on record

Year: 2009
Countries: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Produced by: Andrew Lockyer

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Marcel Duchamp, the film’s subject — not a still from the film. Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About the film

Why Beauty Matters is a 2009 British documentary film written and presented by the philosopher Roger Scruton. Scruton argues for the importance and transcendental nature of beauty.

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What it is about

Stabat Materpostmodern architectureSymposiumcriticism of postmodernismAnthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of ShaftesburyImmanuel Kant

The record

Title	Why Beauty Matters
Year	2009
IMDb	tt3006616
Wikidata	Q23755376

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