Aesthetics
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Proclus' on the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks: Critical Edition with Translation and CommentaryThe book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union,...
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The Performer: Art, Life, PoliticsAn acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than...
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in ArtA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore...
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The Worlds of Classical Chinese AestheticsThis book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - and considers the reasons why music, poetry, calligraphy and painting were the arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this period.Author:...
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The Art and Philosophy of the GardenThe Art and Philosophy of the Garden offers the first authoritative and comprehensive philosophical discussion of the aesthetics of gardens. Philosopher David Fenner and horticulturist Ethan Fenner address such questions as: what is a garden? Are some gardens works of art? What does it...
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Space RoverObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated with...
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Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic WritingsDespite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany. Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's...
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StudioloA brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its...
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Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of MotionSince the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself?...
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Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated EnjoymentWhy do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment....
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The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice...
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Daoism, Dandyism, and Political CorrectnessArgues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.Author: Thorsten Botz-BornsteinPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 03/02/2024Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN:...
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Select Quotations on the Art of LivingAuthor: Tom LovettPublisher: Booklocker.comPublished: 03/10/2024Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9781958892251This title is not returnable
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What's That Smell?: A Philosophy of the OlfactoryHow our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy--and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality. Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells,...
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The Fold: From Your Body to the CosmosIn The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm--who each conceive of the universe as being folded in on itself...
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The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural WorldArgues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.Author: Lawrence CahoonePublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 03/02/2024Pages: 340Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...
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Guilty Aesthetic PleasuresIn the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature's formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible,...
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Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of DevelopmentThis collection contributes to the understanding of the idea of development from Africa-based perspectives. African(ist) thinkers investigate the notion of beauty as a source for alternative approaches to pressing global issues such as poverty, inequality, and climate change.Author: Bolaji BateyePublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 03/22/2023Pages: 270Binding...
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We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward InfinityModern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded when bound...
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The Phenomenological Image: A Husserlian Inquiry Into Reality, Phantasy, and Aesthetic ExperienceOur environment is changing rapidly, as is the spectrum of possible relationships we can entertain with it. Against this background, one important task emerging in contemporary philosophical discussion concerns defining the status of contemporary images and the "iconic spaces" we encounter with ever-increasing frequency...
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