Aesthetics
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The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual PersuasionWhat is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desire--the feeling of "if only"? If only I could wear those clothes, belong to that group, drive that car, live in that house, be (or be with) that person? Postrel identifies the three essential elements...
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Journal of Public Philosophy: Issue 3The Journal of Public Philosophy is sponsored by the Logos Foundation. The goal of the Journal is to publish papers, essays, and book reviews in the mode of classical philosophy. We seek to know the basic truths that are foundational for the common good,...
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Beauty and the End of Art: Wittgenstein, Plurality and PerceptionBeauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer...
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Calling for a New RenaissanceIncludes 50 images, with a large number of paintings from Gao Xingjian's private collection.Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for a body of literary works originally written and published in Chinese and later translated and published in English, French, and...
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Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of OthersThis book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell's claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography,...
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Irreversible NoiseA detailed critical examination of the concept of noise, its significance in scientific disciplines, and its use and misuse in the humanities and sonic arts.In this wide-ranging inquiry, Inigo Wilkins elaborates the theoretical and practical significance of the concept of noise with regard to...
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Media and Formal CauseReviews No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment better than McLuhan's prot g son, Eric. In the foreword, Lance Strate writes that M....
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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 Entw rfe am Zeichentisch oder am Computer-Bildschirm zwar meist recht gut aussehen, in der gebauten Realit t jedoch oft entt uschen?Die Antwort hierf...
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking)The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his...
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The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, IronyMarlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: What does it matter what you say about other people? The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She wonders why the requirement to be...
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The Natyasastra and the Body in Performance: Essays on Indian Theories of Dance and DramaThe Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of performance knowledge developed in South Asia on a range of conceptual issues and practical methodologies of the body. The composition of the Natyasastra is attributed to Sage Bharatha, and dates...
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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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