Aesthetics
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MaskObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection...
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Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the ArtsThe human person is a truth seeker, and one of the most compelling ways human beings pursue truth is through the arts. In Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, Daniel McInerny argues for an understanding of art as a form of...
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Art, Philosophy, and Ideology: Writings on Aesthetics and Visual Culture from the Avantgarde to PostsocialismThis volume presents a selection of aesthetic and art theoretical writings by the internationally renowned philosopher Ales Erjavec from the 1990s to the present. Erjavec was an active participant in the artistic revolt in Slovenia throughout the 1980 and became one of the most...
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NewspaperObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record,...
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Deleuze, Digital Media and ThoughtTimothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy...
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Construction Site for Possible WorldsPerspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds.Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative "official reality," the...
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Plotinus on Beauty (Enneads 1.6 and 5.8.1-2): The Greek Text with NotesPlotinus composed the widely influential Neoplatonic work On Beauty (Ennead 1.6) in the third century CE. This volume includes the Greek text of and English notes on this work, which demonstrates Plotinus's systematic argument and engaging exhortation to foster the inner self. The volume...
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Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and PsychoanalysisSecret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and...
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RaptureWhat is it like to experience rapture? For philosopher Christopher Hamilton, it is a loss of self that is also a return to self--an overflowing and emptying out of the self that also nourishes and fills the self. In this inviting book, he reflects...
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Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before KantCreatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and PhilosopherAlejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed...
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Proclus' on the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks: Critical Edition with Translation and CommentaryThe book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union,...
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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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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in ArtA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore...
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The Worlds of Classical Chinese AestheticsThis book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - and considers the reasons why music, poetry, calligraphy and painting were the arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this period.Author:...
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The Art and Philosophy of the GardenThe Art and Philosophy of the Garden offers the first authoritative and comprehensive philosophical discussion of the aesthetics of gardens. Philosopher David Fenner and horticulturist Ethan Fenner address such questions as: what is a garden? Are some gardens works of art? What does it...
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Space RoverObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated with...
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Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic WritingsDespite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany. Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's...
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StudioloA brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its...
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Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of MotionSince the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself?...
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