Aesthetics
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Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New AestheticsIn this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro's skeptical argument on perfection...
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WineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often wealth. Bottles sell for half...
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Utilidad de Lo Inútil, LaAuthor: Nuccio OrdinePublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 06/20/2023Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9788415689928Language: Spanish
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In Search of WagnerWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social...
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Aesthetic Life and Why It MattersAs the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful,...
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On the Essence of Language and the Question of ArtThe texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger's thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s - a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following...
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It Is All Good and God Is at the End: Preparing for a Happy LandingYou may want to reverse what you think about dying. See what some normal people experienced in their final days.Some of their experiences were extraordinary and even unexplainable. Life begins with an orgasm. I bet our Creator will even top this at our journey's...
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Music and Human FlourishingIt has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute to human happiness and well-being. This volume, part of The Humanities and Human Flourishing series, explores a fourth musical activity--the act of music scholarship--and reveals how...
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Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and WhiteheadThis book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. It draws inspiration from the organic process philosophies of F. W. J. Schelling and A. N. Whitehead to articulate a descendental aesthetic ontology showing...
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Las 10 Mejores Pinturas Para NiñosIn this book, you'll find the motivation behind each artist's work, information about each painter, and wonderful anecdotes. This work depicts photographs of paintings and illustrations, which allow you to understand the essence of art and how to nurture and cultivate it in children....
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With love from GrandpaThis is a personal view of what happiness really means and how it might be achieved. It is meant as a starting point for those who may seek answers to some of life's bigger questions, like why are we here and what is the...
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A Tractate on Japanese AestheticsSure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of JapaneseAuthor: Donald RichiePublisher: Stone Bridge PressPublished: 07/01/2007Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 7.09h x 5.45w x 0.24dISBN: 9781933330235About the AuthorDonald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from...
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Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard StieglerAesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler's technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations...
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RASA or knowledge of the selfRené Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in English include A Night of Serious Drinking and The Power of the Word). Daumal was an autodidact, ie. a non-academic, Sanskritist. Following youthful...
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The Aesthetics of Taste: Eating Within the Realm of ArtWhen does eating become art? The Aesthetics of Taste answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only in artistic...
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Becoming an ArtworkModern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no exception. They also present themselves as...
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The Spirit and the Screen: Pneumatological Reflections on Contemporary CinemaThe Spirit and the Screen explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film and asks how Christian convictions and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about films and film-making.Author: Chris E. W. GreenPublisher: Fortress AcademicPublished: 05/12/2023Pages: 222Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize:...
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Art: The Church's ResponseArt: The Church's Response explores what the biblical perspective is towards creativity and the arts by examining the Hebrew and Greek words the Bible uses touching on various art concepts. While considering the biblical perspective, Rick Sorenson (a creative) includes a historic and aesthetic...
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual PortraitHalf a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure whose work...
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The Scene of the VoiceBrings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.Author: Michael EngPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 314Binding...
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