Aesthetics
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Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-AndalusIn Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in...
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Swimming PoolObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools...
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The Performer: Art, Life, PoliticsAn acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than...
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Elegy for TheoryRhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a...
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The Other SynaesthesiaReconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.Author: Susan BernsteinPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34dISBN: 9781438493619This title is not returnable
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The Good, the True and the BeautifulWhy should we be good? How do we know what is true? What defines beauty? The Good, the True and the Beautiful asks critical questions about who we are and what makes life worthwhile. Michael Boylan offers a stimulating introduction to philosophy, exploring issues...
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Die Künstlerische Darstellung als Problem der ÄsthetikIn this seminal work, Dohrn provides a comprehensive theory of artistic representation and its relationship to aesthetics. He examines the nature of perception, the role of the artist, and the cultural context of artistic production. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, and art history, this book...
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Think: The Manifesto for Creative and Critical ThinkersAuthor: Ivonne KinserPublisher: MindStir MediaPublished: 12/18/2023Pages: 432Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.69lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.25dISBN: 9781962987394
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Reconfiguring the PortraitThis collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media - literature, drawings,...
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Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jamesons Seminar on Aesthetic TheoryMimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time. Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson...
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PencilObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it,...
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Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged ArtIn Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social,...
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A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent UniverseWhat makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers...
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Air ConditioningObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From...
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Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of ThingsConnecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect--how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at...
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RelicObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr,...
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Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-BeingIn Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in...
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Imagination: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary...
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A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of NormativityA strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism."--Jürgen Habermas Theodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowling contrarian...
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Principles of Light and ColorThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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