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Daoism, Dandyism, and Political CorrectnessHow would Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE, have reacted to the recent linguistic reforms commonly referred to as "political correctness"? Zhuangzi was a language skeptic, which means that he did not believe that language could convey the true...
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Montage, Découpage, Mise En Scène: Essays on Film FormMontage, découpage, mise en scène: these three French terms are central to debates around film history and aesthetics in every language, yet the precise meaning of each and especially their relationship to one another remain a source of confusion for many. In this unique...
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Theological Aesthetics: A ReaderA useful reference for academics and lecturers seeking quick answers to questions, or quotations-set out in chronological order, covering material typical of an undergraduate course in Theological Aesthetics.Author: Gesa Elsbeth ThiessenPublisher: SCM PressPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 418Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780334029472
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From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life: Toward the Encounter with the Other in the Perspective of DaoismReevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.Author: Massimiliano LacertosaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 219Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438493640About the AuthorMassimiliano Lacertosa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University...
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The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and PoliticsThe aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy...
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Quantum Art: Mimesis, Uncertainty, and the InfiniteIn 2017, we are approximately one century past the initial conception of Quantum Theory. Yet its implications have not reached our most general, common sense understanding of the universe. Quantum Theory will change the way that we understand reality, our relationship to the environment,...
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The Other SynaesthesiaReconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.Author: Susan BernsteinPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 146Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781438493626About the AuthorSusan Bernstein is Professor...
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Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the SelfieNarcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio,...
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The Creativity of the CrisisIt is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political, social, economic, or personal). It is the psychic, literary, and philosophical aspect of the notion of crisis...
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The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after AffectThe recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibility plays in the constitution of the social. However, these scholarly developments construct their interventions by dismissing the attention to...
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Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and NeoliberalismSince the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the resurgence of politicized art, tracing key currents...
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Ética Para Enfermería: Dilemas Éticos Y Bioéticos En El Ejercicio de la EnfermeríaLas enfermeras de todo el mundo han luchado durante mucho tiempo con los desafíos éticos en la atención al paciente. De hecho, en las Notas sobre enfermería de Florence Nightingale, discutió los deberes éticos de confidencialidad, comunicación y la centralidad de satisfacer las necesidades...
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Carnal Knowledge: Towards a 'New Materialism' Through The ArtsCarnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the 'material turn'. It draws together established and emerging writers,...
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Modern PhilosophyPer Étienne Gilson, "philosophy is a collective enterprise in which no one can pretend to take part unless he is first properly introduced." To provide that proper introduction vis-à-vis the modern period, Gilson and Langan move systematically through the landmark figures and ideas of...
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The Touch of the Present: Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the SensesExplores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.Author: Sharon ToddPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9781438492186This title is not...
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Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your CreativityYour artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical...
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Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence MalickThe definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.Author: Steven DeLayPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 426Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95dISBN: 9781438492124
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Iris Murdoch and the Literary ImaginationThis volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who...
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Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern AgeTwenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion...
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Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New AestheticsIn this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro's skeptical argument on perfection...
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