Aesthetics
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of TasteNo judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once...
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Heidegger's Philosophy of ArtThis book, the first comprehensive study in English of Heidegger's philosophy of art, starts in the mid-1930s with Heidegger's discussion of the Greek temple and his Hegelian declaration that a great artwork gathers together an entire culture in affirmative celebration of its foundational 'truth',...
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes...
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The Analysis of BeautyEnglish artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) is most famous for his satirical caricatures and moral paintings, the forerunners of cartoons. In this instructive volume, the august painter and engraver discusses and illustrates the use of serpentine lines in the expression of grace and beauty. Hogarth...
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Painting and Presence: Why Paintings MatterThis book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what...
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Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black InexpressionExplores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan--a vaudeville term meaning "dead face"--across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the...
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AlarmObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to...
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Literature and SkepticismLiterature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature--in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the...
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The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of ArtThis book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense of ourselves through art. It proposes that the notion of personal identity is a psycho-social construction that has evolved over many centuries. While...
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Simulated Selves: The Undoing of Personal Identity in the Modern WorldThe notion of a personal self took centuries to evolve, reaching the pinnacle of autonomy with Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am' in the 17th century. This 'personalisation' of identity thrived for another hundred years before it began to be questioned, subject to the...
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Things: In Touch with the PastThings: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience--an encounter with the past-despite the fact...
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The Devil Says Maybe I Like It: Essays on Poetry and LifeWendy Bourgeois is a poet, a teacher, and a staff writer at Propeller, where "Reading Lines," her popular column on poetry and life, has run for the past several years. This collection reveals that in addition to the humor, intelligence, and insight Bourgeois offers...
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984Author: Michel FoucaultPublisher: New PressPublished: 03/01/1998Pages: 486Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.46w x 1.69dISBN: 9781565843295Review Citation(s): Library Journal 02/01/1998 pg. 88About the AuthorMichel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He held a chair in the history...
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Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy: Chance and ChoiceEncounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled...
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The Spiritual Significance of Overload BoredomThe spiritual crisis of the twenty-first century is overload boredom. There is more information, content, and stimulation than ever before, and none of it is waiting passively to be consumed. The demands exceed our capacities. The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom makes the case...
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Dawn of a New Feeling: The Neocontemplative ConditionComputers have become omnipresent in recent decades, affecting all aspects of modern life and influencing creative pursuits in art, architecture, music, and film. One consequence of this seemingly irreversible trend is its effect on the perception of the aesthetic object, and indeed of nature...
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Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective StoryA profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology...
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Lyotard and Critical PracticeJean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century's most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities? The dominant economic discourse sees the humanities as "low-value," an irritation at best. Lyotard helps us to think against this...
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Human: A HistoryWhat does it mean to be human? Is there something that makes us distinct from computers, other great apes, Martians, gods? Is there philosophical, ethical, or political value in continuing to think in terms of a common human nature? Or should we rather throw...
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Our Calling and God's hand in History, PB (vol 6)God's Hand in HistoryInterviews and the L'Abri lecturesHans Rookmaaker: An Open Life, by Laurel GasqueRookmaaker was a man of many contrasts: provocative and gentle, rough-hewn and refined, playful yet profoundly serious, reserved yet close to many. This volume attempts to capture the person behind...
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