Aesthetics
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CleaningFrom the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of 100 Whites and Designing Japan, a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaningCleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With beautiful photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and...
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The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian PerspectiveArchitecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant...
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Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French Painting and PhilosophyWhy did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century - from Madame Recamier, by Jacques-Louis David (1800) to Luxe, Calme et Volupte by Matisse (1904)? We'll look for an explanation through a combination of art analysis...
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EnsoulmentGehrz breathes delicate new life into this ancient text, unfolding the threads of Porphyry's thoughts anew. Fundamental questions for astrology -- When does the soul move into the body? Where does the soul come from? -- are considered methodically from myriad angles and potentials....
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Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Introducing AestheticsPhilosophies of Art and Beauty is a thorough historical survey of philosophies of the arts. It provides descriptive analyses of the most significant and influential art forms which help to define European culture, past and present: literature, drama, music, architecture, sculpture and painting. They...
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Normative Aesthetics: Sundry Writings and Occasional LecturesSeerveld is convinced that philosophical aesthetics-systematic reflection on the nature and task of human imaginative life-will be normative when the thought is wholesome, edible, worth chewing, and builds the body of a community with joyful shalom. Normative Aesthetics, introduced by Lambert Zuidervaart, aims to...
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Aesthetics Today: A ReaderProvides a wide-ranging introduction to aesthetic theory and philosophy of art for readers, particularly university students who seek an overview of major controversies, theories, and writers. The 44 readings are chosen for their capacity to provide a representative set of competing perspectives within the...
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Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven ApproachAesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world - things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpaper. There's a surprising amount of philosophical content to...
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The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural WorldPhilosophers, social scientists, and natural scientists argue over whether a natural scientific account of human being is compatible with uniquely human norms like ethics, justice, art, and the concern for truth. Many attempts at such an account have been tried and failed; others, like...
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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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