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The Future of Beauty


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Among imaginable futures at the turn of the millennium, new configurations of ethnic, political, and religious identity cause a great deal of public concern. The global economy raises hopes in some, while in others it gives rise to anxieties that the whole earth will become “commodified”—that in the world marketplace, money values will be imposed on every natural, cultural, and spiritual good, and that lacking institutional protection, things and places once considered sacred will become increasingly marketable. At the root of this anxiety is the suspicion that everything will be standardized and tailored to a globally homogenized soul. One fears that, as Pico Iyer says, all cities, all places, will look "more and more like transnational airports."

Most at risk is beauty–its metaphysical appeal, its way of conveying "the unbought grace of life," in Edmund Burke's memorable phrase. If the whole world "wears man's smudge and bears man's smell," as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it, how shall we find our way back to the sacred character of beauty–that transforming experience? Imagining an encounter with the Angel in the first of his Duino Elegies, the poet Rilke describes this sense of beauty unforgettably:



For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror,
which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. . . .


Despite the ever-present human tendency toward mediocrity and predictability, our longing for beauty is so powerful that increased economic freedom and cultural mixing might very well lead to new possibilities of form hardly yet imagined. In this ongoing lecture series, Dallas Institute Fellows will ask what the imagination steeped in world traditions may conceive in the new millennium. Lectures will explore what the future of beauty might be–in the arts, the sciences, religion, technology, politics, the body itself.



September 27
Glenn Arbery, Selling Beauty: The Future of a Sacrifice

October 4
Louise Cowan, The Frail Strength of Beauty

October 11
Fred Turner, How Beauty Evolves

October 18
Mary Vernon, Beauty as Theft

October 25
Joanne Stroud, Bachelard's Image of Beauty

November 1
Virginia Arbery, The Paradox of Democratic Beauty

November 8
Panel of all lecturers, The Future of Beauty




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