Aesthetics
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Technological Destinies of the ImaginationThe tradition of Kant's critical philosophy developed the concept of imagination in a rigorous and productive way. It also allows us to develop an aesthetic approach suitable to explaining and understanding the relationship between sensitivity and technology. In this book, Montani defends the reasons...
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Badiou by BadiouAn accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence...
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Exploring the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood: From History and Method to Art and PoliticsRobin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work spanning theory of knowledge, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, and social and political philosophy. The full range and reach of Collingwood's philosophical thought is...
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Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 Vols.): Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James O. Young and Margaret CameronThis is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Du Bos' Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics in any language.Author: Jean-Baptiste Du BosPublisher: BrillPublished: 07/29/2021Pages: 950Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.85lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.40w x 2.40dISBN:...
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Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, PB (vol 5)Modern Art and the Death of a Culture; Art and the Public Today; Twentieth-century arts and artists - articles and reviewsRookmaaker's analysis of modern art offers an insightful perspective on the cultural turmoil of the past century and its subsequent impact on today's world....
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Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese PhilosophyReconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to...
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The Creative Gift, Dürer, Dada and Desolation Row, PB (vol3)Art and Entertainment; The Creative Gift; Articles on history, faith and culture, lifestyle, scholarship, and the Westminster discussions Through his early work, Art and Entertainment (1962), made available in English for the first time in this volume, and through The Creative Gift, a collection...
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Modernism Between Benjamin and GoetheWidely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin's relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theories of Early German Romanticism and his associated interest in avant-garde Surrealism. But...
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Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist AgeA pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion...
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Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist AgeA pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion...
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What's Wrong with the World (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)In What's Wrong With the World Gilbert K. Chesterton identified many things wrong with the world, including social evil, prejudices that stop people from discussing social solutions in open and honest forums, an inability to learn from the past, the destruction of the family...
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Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical TheoryCritique has been a central theme in the German philosophical tradition since the eighteenth century. The main goal of this book is to provide a history of this concept from its Kantian inception to contemporary critical theory. Focusing on both canonical and previously overlooked...
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Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political AestheticsPublic space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work's aesthetics are inextricably entwined with its political valences. Democracy's openness allows public art to explore its values critically...
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Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion': Renaissance Proportion TheoryIn 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht D rer's Four Books on Human Proportion. While D rer's treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci's Italian translation...
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The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, WorldThe Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC radio. Malpas contacted White, and from there they exchanged books and ideas. They arranged to meet at White's place on...
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An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the HumanitiesIn An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to...
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The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty"Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning" (James 1:17). This verse conveys a powerful image of God as the source and referent of...
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Visual Art and Self-ConstructionStarting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction,...
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The Meaning of Idealism: The Metaphysics of Genus and CountenanceThe Meaning of Idealism is a journey: from Plato and Aristotle to Neoplatonism to Medieval theories of being and knowing, from these to Orthodox spirituality, to Vedic mysticism, from Vedic mysticism to astrology, from astrology to modern science-including relativity, the mathematical theory of invariants,...
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The Meaning of Idealism: The Metaphysics of Genus and CountenanceThe Meaning of Idealism is a journey: from Plato and Aristotle to Neoplatonism to Medieval theories of being and knowing, from these to Orthodox spirituality, to Vedic mysticism, from Vedic mysticism to astrology, from astrology to modern science-including relativity, the mathematical theory of invariants,...
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