Aesthetics
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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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Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture, PB (vol 4)Western art from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century; Art Needs No Justification; Miscellaneous articles and reviews.Was Pieter Bruegel the Elder a gnostic? Is that why Jesus is often reduced to an insignificant detail in his paintings? Why do we call seventeenth-century Dutch...
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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative GenreThis monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period,...
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Édouard Glissant, Philosopher: Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-WorldOne of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century, Édouard Glissant's body of work covers multiple genres and addresses many cogent contemporary problems, such as borders, multiculturalism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and global humanities. Édouard Glissant, Philosopher is the first study that maps...
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Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth'Capitalist realism' implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and distribution. Everything else is generally dismissed as 'utopianism' or just na ve dreaming. This perspective points to a worrying failure of...
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The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and ArtIn The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation--Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector--to argue that the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a...
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Homo Irrealis: EssaysThe New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate...
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Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, BanksyExaminations of Francis Ponge's texts on Jean Fautrier's "Hostage Paintings," Jack Whitten's Memorial Paintings, and Banksy's auction stunt Love is in the Bin.This book contains three case studies on very different artists, analyzing their work through their respective historical contexts: the writer Francis Ponge...
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Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of LifeImmanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant's aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his investigation of the judgment of...
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