Aesthetics
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Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and SymbolismIs color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is examined in extraordinary new ways in John Gage's latest book. His...
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A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian AestheticsFrom the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste,...
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Human Rights In CameraFrom the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated. But the history of human...
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Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to DecideOver the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music,...
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Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and ArtThis book explores the role of aesthetic experience in our perception and understanding of the holy. Richard Viladesau's goal is to articulate a theology of revelation, examined in relation to three principal dimensions of the aesthetic realm: feeling and imagination; beauty (or taste); and...
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The Joyous ScienceGrounded in his famous notion that God is dead, Nietzsche's most personal book--and one of his best A Penguin Classic The Joyous Science--also known as The Gay Science and The Joyful Wisdom--is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that God is dead...
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Beyond Nihilism: The Turn in Heidegger's Thought from Nietzsche to HölderlinMartin Heidegger's (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism represented a 'turn' in his thought. In this new and perceptive book, Dominic Kelly explores nihilism through the work of two relatively modern and much studied philosophers; Heidegger and Nietzsche and shows how Heidegger began to...
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Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City LifeThirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.Author: Richard ShustermanPublisher: BrillPublished: 03/24/2022Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The WellBeauty: A guide to your beauty tool when skincare products don't workIt's an essay-style short book, co-authored by Heyyoung Kim, the co-founder of skincare brand, Respekt and a skincare doctor in Korea, Dr. Robert Kim, MD. It tells about the history of how she and the Respekt brand came to bring the WellBeauty vision, Beauty...
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Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish NarrativeThe title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. Amid this profusion of options, it is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical...
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Aesthetic Life and Why It MattersAs the sunset swings into view, you think, That's beautiful. You take a bite of cake and you think, Wow, that's sweet-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful,...
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Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in MultiplicityThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which...
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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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On Quality Lib/E: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected WritingsFrom the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--quality--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works. The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment.Robert...
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Between Celan and HeideggerThe relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. Pablo Oyarzun begins with a deconstruction of Celan's Todtnauberg, written after...
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Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-CausationZiran, an idea from ancient Daoism, defies easy translation into English but can almost be captured by the term spontaneity. It means self-causation, if self is understood as fundamentally plural, and causation is understood as sensitivity and responsiveness. Applying ziran to the fields of...
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Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and TruthAddressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the two forms and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them....
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Wild: Aesthetics of the Dangerous and EndangeredIn this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to...
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Georges Didi-Huberman and Film: The Politics of the ImageGeorges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers. Since the publication of his first book in 1982, he has published 46 essays, mostly with the prestigious Editions de Minuit, on topics ranging from monographs on individual...
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Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into FocusAesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born. In Brain, Beauty, and Art, leading scholars in this...
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