Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but its also in the language we useand everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant witty and ultimatelyprofound ... » 

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but its also in the language we useand everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant witty and ultimatelyprofound meditation on what is beautiful Crispin Sartwell begins with sixwords from six different cultures ancient Greeks to kalon the Japaneseidea of wabisabi Hebrews yapha the Navajo concept hozho Sanskritsundara and our own Englishlanguage beauty. Each word becomes a door ontoanother way of thinking about and looking at what is beautiful in the worldand in our lives. In Sartwells hands these six names of beauty and therecould be thousands more are revealed as simple and profound ideas about ourworld and our selves. «