Aesthetics
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Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of ModernityWalter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined....
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Roberto Bolle: Voyage Into BeautyThis lavish photographic volume presents the magnificent Roberto Bolle, principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre and guest artist at La Scala and the Royal Ballet, in the most beautiful locations throughout Italy, from St. Mark's Square to Agrigento, from the Colosseum to Pompeii....
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The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of GenderMore than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides...
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On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the UnrulyMarcel Duchamp once asked whether it is possible to make something that is not a work of art. This question returns over and over in modernist culture, where there are no longer any authoritative criteria for what can be identified (or excluded) as a...
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The Ground of the ImageIf anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as "spectacle"...
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Theatricality as MediumEver since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the mythos, or the plot. This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related to...
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Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and PoliticsCommunities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today's globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Ranci re's theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined...
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Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, PostmodernismFive Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity-the notion that we, the living,...
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The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical ObjectsWe surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects--such as one's own body--situate and define us; yet at the same time they are fundamentally indifferent to us. The melancholy of this...
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The Fold: Leibniz and the BaroqueAuthor: Gilles DeleuzePublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 12/18/1992Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.08w x 0.45dISBN: 9780816616015This title is only available via back order
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Poker and Philosophy: Pocket Rockets and Philosopher KingsDoes God play cards with the universe? Do women have better poker faces than men? What's the most existential poker movie ever made? Is life more meaningful when you go all-in? Is online poker really still poker? Poker and Philosophy ponders these questions and...
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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of ArtDanto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a serious aesthetic crime, whereas a hundred years ago it...
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Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the HolyArguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin...
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Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image TheoryThese phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible.Author: Lambert WiesingPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 12/03/2009Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9780804759410Review...
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Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary ArtThis book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the affective quality of art contributes to...
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Multiple Arts: The Muses IIThis collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his...
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Zarathustra's Dionysian ModernismIn arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism--that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values--the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Nietzsche takes up...
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Political Aesthetics"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time, or even are inverted or redeployed...
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Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and PhilosophyIn this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the...
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Lost in TranslationElusive, subtle and atmospheric, Lost in Translation was one of the indie hits of 2004, earning widespread critical praise, awards and success at the box office. But what was the basis of its appeal and how exactly is the film marked as a distinctly...
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