Aesthetics
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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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On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality: A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires Into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation aThis book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics,...
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Therapeutic Aesthetics: Performative Encounters in Moving Image ArtworksTherapeutic Aesthetics focuses on moving image artworks as expressive of social psychopathological symptoms that arise in a climate of neoliberal cognitive capitalism, such as anxiety, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder and burnout. The book is not about engaging with art as a therapy to...
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A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and IdentityThe question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and emotional engagement, this is the first time fashion and costume choices are...
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Environmental Aesthetics Hypothesis: The Art, Science, & Psychology of Perceiving & Expressing Our ExperiencesEnvironmental Aesthetics is a hypothesis & guide for internalizing, analyzing, and advancing our sense of aesthetic order. The book is designed to be used as a guide in secondary and university level humanities programs, and personally by all artists and patrons of the arts....
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Die Wahrheit Der Niederländischen Malerei: Eine Archäologie Der GegenwartskunstIn der Moderne muss Kunst ebenso wahr wie gegenwärtig sein. Kein Werk und keine Praxis können sich ernsthaft als Kunst behaupten, ohne solchen Ansprüchen zu genügen. Doch wie konnten Wahrheit und Gegenwärtigkeit zu den entscheidenden, nicht-ästhetischen Kriterien von Kunst werden? Die hier vorgelegte Studie...
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On Poetry and PhilosophyBrayton Polka's book, On Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant, is unique in bringing poetry and philosophy together in a single study. The poet and the philosopher whom he makes central to his project are both revolutionary founders of modernity, Wordsworth...
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The Philosophy of ArtThis book offers its readers a theoretical-systematic statement of the problematic of aesthetics in the aftermath of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics and of its further developments in the works of his greatest, or most influential, followers, in particular Friedrich Theodor Vischer's monumental Ästhetik oder...
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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's the Man Without Qualities: Possibility as RealityThe first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as...
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Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and CognitionChallenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction.Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)Grace Abounding to the Chief of SInners is a Puritan spiritual autobiography composed while Bunyan was serving a twelve-year prison sentence for preaching without a license. The religious tolerance which had allowed Bunyan the freedom to preach became curtailed with the restoration of the...
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Aesthetics: A Philosophical PerspectiveThe branch of philosophy that focuses on the nature of beauty and taste along with the philosophy of art is called aesthetics. This discipline examines judgments of taste and sentiment. Aesthetics is a critical reflection on art, nature and culture. Emotions that are felt...
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Philosophy of Painting: Ancient, Modern, ContemporaryWhat can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Paintinginvestigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of art....
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Philosophy of Painting: Ancient, Modern, ContemporaryWhat can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of...
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Philosophies of Beauty From Socrates to Robert Bridges, Being the Sources of Aesthetic TheoryThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Ashé: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression'ASHÉ Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the...
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Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of MetaphorThis book offers a new definition of metaphor-as an ontological and visual construction, whose roots are external visual forms, and its motivation is our attachment to forms. This definition, which Michalle Gal names "visualist," challenges the ruling conceptualist theory of metaphors and places a...
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Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in PublicIn Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. It is a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and through case...
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Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-VisibleGrammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of...
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The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa HalensisIn this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensis-conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)-for...
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