Aesthetics
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The Politics of the DreamscapeThis book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures. The book puts forward the concept of the dreamscape as a pre-representational space that...
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Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal RelationshipThis book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as tangential or morally instrumental by way of...
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Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America Since 1772The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to the nation's cultural designs, themes, and motifs. The study...
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Cultural Dance in Australia: Essays on Performance Contexts Beyond the PaleThis book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within...
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Art as Human Practice: An AestheticsHow is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of...
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The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and PoliticsThis book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy's influential essay "La communauté désoeuvrée" as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing...
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A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895-1959This book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of "documentary" between the years 1895 and 1959. The book dedicates one chapter to each of the thirty definitions, scrutinizing their idiosyncratic language games from close range while...
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Without Model: Parva AestheticaEssays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that artistic and philosophical...
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The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a HermeneuticsNo overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio Hösle covers the development of the genre from its beginning with Plato to the late twentieth-century...
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The Birth of TragedyNietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life. This landmark work of criticism is fueled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the...
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The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy: Between Biology, Anthropology, and MetaphysicsThis volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy. Its aim is to offer a comprehensive historical overview of the concept of drive at the turn of the 19th century and to discuss it both...
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New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late ModernityThis book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux. Engaging with thinkers such as...
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Chinese Aesthetics in a Global ContextIntroduction.- The Aesthetic Activity.- The Aesthetic Object.- The Aesthetic Relationship.- Characteristics of Aesthetic Perception.- Aesthetic Consciousness.- Aesthetic Ideo-imagery.- Aesthetic Styles.- Aesthetic Education.- Conclusion.- References.- Index.Author: Zhirong ZhuPublisher: SpringerPublished: 01/06/2023Pages: 321Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70dISBN: 9789811677496
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Intermedial Theater: Performance Philosophy, Transversal Poetics, and the Future of AffectIntermedial Theater offers an original contribution to a developing and productive sophistication in this fast-growing area of research. Exploring the relationship between technology, consciousness, subjectivity, affect and spectatorship, the book focuses on the fertile gap between the somatic, cultural and the political across contemporary...
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A Companion to the Philosophy of LiteratureThis monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studies of literature. Helpfully groups essays into the field's main sub-categories, among them 'Relations Between Philosophy and...
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A History of Modern Aesthetics 3 Volume SetA History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The...
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Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and CatastropheTheodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores Adorno's critical view of art as engaged in...
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Art and Its ObjectsRichard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature of art. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, with a specially commissioned preface written by Richard...
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Greek Music Drama"The Greek Music Drama" marks an intriguing moment in the development of Nietzsche's thought. Delivered in 1870 at the Basel Museum, it was the first public enunciation of the great themes that would echo throughout Nietzsche's philosophy: the importance of aesthetic experience for culture,...
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Die Augen Der Haut: Architektur und die SinneArchitektur kann inspirierend und einnehmend sein, sie kann sogar im Sinne Goethes das Leben steigern. Wie kommt es aber, dass architektonische Entwürfe am Zeichentisch oder am Computer-Bildschirm zwar meist recht gut aussehen, in der gebauten Realität jedoch oft enttäuschen? Die Antwort hierfür, behauptet Juhani...
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