Aesthetics
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulIn his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful, ' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express...
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The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of MaterialismPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view...
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Maya Deren: Incomplete ControlMaya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon...
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Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the EarthInstead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory...
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The Philosophy of ImprovisationImprovisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of clichés. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts--from music to theater, dance to comedy--and considers the improvised...
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Dewey for ArtistsJohn Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art. Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, and it is...
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Serious Larks: The Philosophy of Ted CohenTed Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers...
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Aesthetics as Philosophy of PerceptionAesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make...
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Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of WineInterest in wine has steadily increased in recent years, with people far more sophisticated about wine than they used to be. And, inevitably, those who take a serious interest in wine find themselves asking questions about it that are at heart philosophical. Questions of...
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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and TragedyThis handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.Author: Stanley CavellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/01/1999Pages:...
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The Philosophy of Creativity: New EssaysCreativity pervades human life. It is the mark of individuality, the vehicle of self-expression, and the engine of progress in every human endeavor. It also raises a wealth of neglected and yet evocative philosophical questions: What is the role of consciousness in the creative...
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More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to ArtIn the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind and other disabled people have become marginally more...
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American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary LiteratureWhat do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically...
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Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of JudgmentAuthor: Ido GeigerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/28/2022Pages: 282Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781108834261About the AuthorGeiger, Ido: - Ido Geiger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is author of The Founding Act of Modern Ethical...
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Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry: Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement1 Dancing: Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition 2 Critical Inquiry: Creative Movement and Embodied 3 Movement-Knowings: Affect and Embodied Intuition 4 Somatics: Improvisation and Feeling-Practices 5 Embodied Critical Inquiry: A Theory 6 Enactivism and Embodied Critical Inquiry 7 Embodied Critical Inquiry: A Method 8 The...
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This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary MetaphorTransparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually...
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic TheoryPREFACEThis little work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality I can claim is that which may result from the attempt to...
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Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical ApproachThis book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity...
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Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics After MarcuseAn examination of Herbert Marcuse's political claim for the aesthetic dimension, focusing on defamiliarization as a means of developing radical sensibility. In Uncommon Sense, Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herbert Marcuse--an original member of the Frankfurt School...
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Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human CognitionUse your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? This book takes...
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