Aesthetics
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Kandinsky: Incarnating BeautyA compilation of esoteric musings, Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty explores Alexandre Kojève's philosophical approach to the relationship between art and beauty. A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His...
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual LifeAn invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure,...
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Poetry and MysticismThese two essays by Raïssa Maritain-"Sense and Non-Sense in Poetry" and "Magic, Poetry, and Mysticism"-comprise an often forgotten but significant contribution to Catholic letters. Maritain considers the way true poetry always transcends its "logical sense" in order to convey a "poetic sense." Poetry is...
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Aesthetics Volume IAuthor: Dietrich Von HildebrandPublisher: Hildebrand PressPublished: 06/10/2016Pages: 510Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03dISBN: 9781939773043This title is not returnable
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Critique of JudgmentThis 1790 polemic by one of philosophy's most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of judgment. Kant's third critique -- after Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason -- remains one of the most important...
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SkateboardObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the...
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Confessions of a Heretic, Revised EditionA revised edition of the Notting Hill Editions essay collection by the late Sir Roger Scruton with a new introduction by Douglas Murray. Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each "confession"...
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Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and ArtFrom his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what...
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Living in the Mountains: Contemporary Houses in the MountainsA breathtaking, inspiring - and aspirational - survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountainsOffering respite from urban living and a profound connection to nature, mountain landscapes present unique challenges that have resulted in innovative,...
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Stranger FacesNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2020Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging.--The New York TimesSerpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again.--Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIf evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus...
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Saving BeautyBeauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures...
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StudioloA brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its...
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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, InterestingThe zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic...
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Imaginary Portrait of an Art HistorianTo convey ideas through the medium of images has always been the aim of those who are artists as well as thinkers in art history, and it is to a desire to give a sensuous environment to intellectual concepts that we owe Haladyn's volume.For...
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PoliticsIntellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Famed Jowett translation of Aristotle's masterwork.Author: AristotlePublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 11/15/2000Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.51h x 4.98w x 0.90dISBN: 9780486414249Audience: Young AdultThis title...
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The Birth of TragedyIn The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight...
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Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence MalickLeaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of...
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The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success MediumA study of how the rhetoric of painting remains omnipresent in the field of art.Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the...
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Finding BeautyYou are beautiful from the top of your head to the tip of your toes--but beauty is far more than something you can have. It's also something you have to find. In other people. In nature. In acts of kindness. In math, and art,...
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Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of MovementAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston Bachelard Trans. Edith and Frederick Farrell. Bachelard uses his extensive knowledge of the poetry of Poe, Blake, Shelley, and Nietzsche to amplify the images of the airy elements. THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS...
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