Aesthetics
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Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine ArtsJefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of...
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The Concept of Non-PhotographyA rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model...
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NymphsIn 1900, art historians Andr Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure--shall I call her a servant girl, or rather a...
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Symbolism, the Sacred, and the ArtsThis major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. In his lifelong quest to understand the presence of the Sacred throughout human history, Eliade has been fascinated by two central themes: Creation and Time.Author: Mircea EliadePublisher:...
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The Pleasure in DrawingOriginally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to...
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Aesthetics of AppearingThis book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Appearing bespeaks of the reality that all aesthetic objects share, however different they may otherwise be. For Martin Seel, appearing plays its part everywhere in...
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Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryOriginally published in 1766, the Laocoön has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry; its author, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, has been called the first modern esthetician. As Michael Fried writes in his foreword,...
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Deleuze and DesignWhether we are dealing with products or scenarios, packaging or experiences, territories or digital platforms, design is never a thing but a process of change, invention and speculation that always has material, tangible implications that affect behaviours and lives. Drawing on a range of...
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Ibn Khaldun: Life and TimesThe first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate contemporaries. Legions of sociologists, anthropologists and historians...
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Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and IslandsBoldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination's ever-ramifying contours and dimensions, and along the way compels us...
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Utopian TraceLiterary Nonfiction. In the late 19th and early 20th century Peter Lamborn Wilson hosted The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI-FM in NYC, where he would read his essays as Radio Sermonettes. One of these, Utopian Trails in Central Park, was thought lost until...
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Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other WritingsThis volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote...
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Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual ArtsThis book offers an original and challenging study of Marx's contact with the visual arts, aesthetic theories, and art policies in nineteenth-century Europe. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory in looking at Marx's views from an art-historical rather than from a...
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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other EssaysThis volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued...
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The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and NatureIn The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies...
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Zettel, 40th Anniversary EditionZettel, an en face bilingual edition, collects fragments from Wittgenstein's work between 1929 and 1948 on issues of the mind, mathematics, and language.Author: Ludwig WittgensteinPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 03/21/2007Pages: 253Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9780520252448
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Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to AestheticsPhilosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel....
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The Sublime, Terror and Human DifferenceChristine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity,...
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After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: Devin GriffithsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 276Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781009181174This title is not returnable
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The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human CreativityIn this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to...
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