Aesthetics
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The Principles of ArtThis early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in 1923 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Principles of Art' is an academic work on the philosophy of art. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd...
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Rome: The First Book of FoundationsMichel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth...
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Félix Ravaisson: Selected EssaysThis reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the...
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Black is BeautifulBlack is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject. The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that...
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ExpressivenessA natural landscape can look serene, a shade of colour cheerful and a piece of music might sound heartrending. Why do we ascribe affective qualities to objects that can't entertain psychological states? The capacity that objects, and especially artworks, have to express affective states...
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Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German AestheticsThis volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the...
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Didi-Huberman and the ImagePhilosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the first English-language study of his writing on images. An image is a form of representation, but what are the philosophical frameworks supporting...
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Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art MediumInstead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms of archival possibilities, this book suggests we abandon our fantasy of mastery over representation and respond in kind to the archive-as-artwork, to "living" archives,...
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Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life FormThis book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which...
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Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German RomanticismThe scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy,...
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God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little DialoguesThe four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamin's "Aufklärung für Kinder" radio...
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The Art and Aesthetics of BoxingWhat separates the chaos of fighting from the coherent ritual of boxing? According to author David Scott, it is a collection of aesthetic constructions, including the shape of the ring, the predictable rhythm of timed rounds, the uniformity of the boxers' glamorous attire, and...
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Classic and Romantic German AestheticsThis volume brings together major works by German thinkers who were extremely influential in the crucial period of aesthetics prior to and after Kant. It includes the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's on the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful,...
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The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic InspirationA work of art, whether a painting, a dance, a poem, or a jazz composition, can be admired in its own right. But how does the artist actually create his or her work? What is the source of an artist's inspiration? What is the...
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Open WorkMore than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of openness--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two...
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From Shakespeare to Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and ToynA classic book by one of the twentieth century's most innovative and adventurous thinkers First published in 1959, From Shakespeare to Existentialism offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature. Few scholars can match Kaufmann's...
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8)Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainI wonder if Fors will let me say any small proportion, this year, of what I intend. I wish she would, for my readers have every right to be...
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Che cosa è l'arte?Che cosa è l'arte? un libro che meriterebbe di essere confutato da Ernesto Rnan. Quanto a idee generali, esso non ci apporta grandi novit circa la mente dellautore sullarte e il suo ufficio nel mondo. Leggendolo si pensa alla Sonata a Kreuzer e si...
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8)Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainOne day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door of the University galleries, to give a lecture on the Fine Arts in Florence,...
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Amours d'Extrême-OrientAmours d'Extrême-Orient - Illustrations d'après nature par Amédée VignolaJe pense vous intresser, Mesdames, vos surs lointaines. Ne craignez pas que je mefforce un parallle dans lequel votre charme ptisse auprs du leur, charme de rve. Lavantage, par avance, vous serait acquis. Car, si jose...
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