I did a brief search for book and web titles with Reclaiming Beauty. There are a handful, including a book with an essay contributed by Nikos Salingaros, titled: Reclaiming Beauty: Collected Essays in Political Anthropology Volume I - Series on Contemporary Mimetic Revival (I've posted an article by Nikos Salingaros from another source here).
To avoid confusion (apparently, having the same book title is not plagiarism, and wont result in legal actions - but who knows), I've decided to add a subtitle:
Reclaiming Beauty: Winning Back Our Civilization.
I can always reclaim (or attempt to reclaim) what has been taken away from me. But, that is an insignificant, solitary act, which I can repeat from a lonely forum on my single blog.
But, my aim is to make reclaiming beauty into a movement. As I wrote in my introduction:
This is a site which aims to reclaim beauty. It is a group effort, with the vision that it becomes a movement.And why should a group of people join a movement unless we feel it affects us collectively?
The collective loss we will suffer if we don't act together to reclaim beauty is the loss of our civilization, our Western civilization.
Reclaiming beauty is not just an intellectual effort, but it is also an activist's endeavor. There are many activities I envision, such as: Setting up conferences for group discussions and meetings; Providing a forum for writers; Establishing definitions for words such as "beauty" and "reclaim"; Having a voice in political and cultural decisions that affect beauty in our environment (for example, objecting to the building of glass tower sky-scrapers in our neighborhoods); Providing guidelines for every-day beauty, such as dress, etiquette, language; Providing resources for people to learn about beauty's role in our civilization; Alerting people into the ways that beauty is being desecrated and maligned.
Therefore, the sub-title "Winning Back Our Civilization" is necessary.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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