Aesthetics
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Blue JeansObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or casual as blue jeans. Yet, their simplicity is deceptive. Blue jeans are nothing if not an exercise in opposites. Americans...
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Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York CityUnearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop Hip Hop Heresies centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this...
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ApproachesIt is true that it is problematic to decide whether or not to include alcoholic beverages among drugs in the strict sense of the word. Perhaps their primordial power has been domesticated during millennia of enjoyment. Myths have passed down to us a more...
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Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beautyvolume 10Finalist for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists...
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On the Shoulders of GiantsA posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture. In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the...
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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters: Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of ArtWe encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and...
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One-Way Street: And Other WritingsA classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and...
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ProfanationsThe Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the...
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ProfanationsThe Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the...
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A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and ArtAn engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy...
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Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the ArtsWhat does God say about the arts? Can you be a Christian and an artist? How do the arts impact your church? The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God's handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid...
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Drunken SilenusThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of...
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Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)Introduction: Working Toward a Post-Racist United States Chapter One: Philosophies Of Race: (Re)Conceptualizing African American Literature and Anti-Racist Practices Introduction A brief wondrous history of defining African American literature and its studies Representative Trope, Author, and Pedagogy Chapter Two: Racelessness In Literary Studies: The...
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Death Comes for the Cathedrals"Suppose for a moment that Catholicism had been dead for centuries, that the traditions of its worship had been lost. Only the unspeaking and forlorn cathedrals remain; they have become unintelligible yet remain admirable."So begins Marcel Proust's Death Comes for the Cathedrals (La mort...
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Why It's OK to Enjoy the Work of Immoral ArtistsThe #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally. One natural thought is that fans ought to give up the artworks of immoral artists. In Why It's OK to Enjoy...
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Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale of Learning from Tragic CounselThis book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her...
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical InquiryOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue...
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Theory of Colours:The wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established by the time the great German poet published his Theory of Colours in 1810. Nevertheless, Goethe believed that the theory derived from a fundamental error, in which an incidental result was mistaken for...
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Musings of a Curious AestheteA quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.Author: Leonard KorenPublisher: Imperfect PublishingPublished: 11/24/2020Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9780981484679About...
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Aesthetics and PoliticsAn intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate...
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