Aesthetics
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The WellBeauty: A guide to your beauty tool when skincare products don't workIt's an essay-style short book, co-authored by Heyyoung Kim, the co-founder of skincare brand, Respekt and a skincare doctor in Korea, Dr. Robert Kim, MD. It tells about the history of how she and the Respekt brand came to bring the WellBeauty vision, Beauty...
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Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish NarrativeThe title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. Amid this profusion of options, it is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical...
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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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Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in MultiplicityThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which...
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Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York CityUnearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop Hip Hop Heresies centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this...
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On Quality Lib/E: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected WritingsFrom the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--quality--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works. The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment.Robert...
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Between Celan and HeideggerThe relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. Pablo Oyarzun begins with a deconstruction of Celan's Todtnauberg, written after...
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Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-CausationZiran, an idea from ancient Daoism, defies easy translation into English but can almost be captured by the term spontaneity. It means self-causation, if self is understood as fundamentally plural, and causation is understood as sensitivity and responsiveness. Applying ziran to the fields of...
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Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and TruthAddressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the two forms and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them....
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Wild: Aesthetics of the Dangerous and EndangeredIn this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to...
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Georges Didi-Huberman and Film: The Politics of the ImageGeorges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers. Since the publication of his first book in 1982, he has published 46 essays, mostly with the prestigious Editions de Minuit, on topics ranging from monographs on individual...
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Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into FocusAesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born. In Brain, Beauty, and Art, leading scholars in this...
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The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and CriticismThe literature on physiognomy--the art of studying a person's outward appearance, especially the face, in order to determine character and intelligence--has flourished in recent years in the wake of renewed scholarly interest in the history and politics of the body. Virtually no attention, however,...
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The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical AestheticsThe Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different...
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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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Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose WorksThis book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "Primal Sound" essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste Rodin. It is...
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Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of JapanHow Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint,...
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The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in CriticismUsing new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception...
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Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra WagnerWagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their...
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The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and KitschWhat are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises...
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