Aesthetics
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Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art FormThe twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's...
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Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French ThoughtThe contemporary idea of the "work of art" is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. Therefore, we must re-evaluate the concept before we can understand what the deconstruction of aesthetics means for thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. By examining...
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Sociology in a New Key: Essays in Social Theory and AestheticsThis book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through the lens of aesthetic theory. Drawing on the aesthetic theories of Theodor W. Adorno, Gregory Bateson, Jean-Marie Guyau, Talcott Parsons and Georg Simmel, it suggests a new...
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The Lady Who Was Beautiful InsideThe lady had seen the power of the beauty inside her. And from then on, everywhere she went, loveliness happened. For she did have a very beautiful beauty indeed." --The Lady Who Was Beautiful Inside * The perfect, any-occasion gift book for every woman...
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Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of MindThis book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with questions in the...
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Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle: understanding contemporary spectacular experiencesTowards a Genealogy of Spectacle is an exploration of contemporary experience of spectacle in its multiple layers, as it attempts to expose the forces that are at work in the making of spectacular events. It sets before itself two goals: to understand the language...
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Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape: Appearances of the PoliticalThis book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and...
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and LiteratureA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jos Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art."...
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John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life: Revisioning the Arts and EducationThis carefully researched book offers a dynamic and expansive Deweyan vision for the arts and education. This (re)vision acknowledges the influence on Dewey's aesthetics of art collector and educator Albert Barnes, while also exploring the various ways Dewey's writings on the arts, in moving...
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Art and Interpretation: An Anthology of Readings in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of ArtArt and Interpretation is a comprehensive anthology of readings on aesthetics. Its aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to create a common vocabulary for those from diverse backgrounds to communicate meaningfully about aesthetic issues. To that end, the...
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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We AreWhy human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon--and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human...
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When The River SpeaksThe overzealousness of man to push beyond destiny in an attempt to achieve success in life had always been the regrettable aftermath that tends to hunt starving innocent souls to damnation. The issue of compromise between failure to achieve the golden flees of life...
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A study of faith and scientific knowledgeIt is well known that religion has something to do with faith and belief and is understood in contrast with scientific knowledge or epistemology. From the very beginning it should be made clear that philosophy of religion is a second order activity . Its...
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Plato's Guide to Philosophical PreparationImagine a hypothetical reader of Plato. He cannot help but notice that throughout Plato's works, there are exhortations to philosophy - powerful protreptics that praise philosophy's virtues. Philosophy can make us better skilled at thinking (Phaedrus 239b), it can make us more virtuous (Phaedo...
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From Art to Marketing: The Relevance of Authenticity to Contemporary Consumer CultureTaking a new approach to a relatively underexplored area, this book examines the concept of authenticity and its relevance to marketing management. The author draws on several disciplines, including arts, philosophy, sociology and psychology, as well as focusing on important sub-fields within the field...
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In the FlowAuthor: Boris GroysPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/16/2018Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90dISBN: 9781784783518About the AuthorBoris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, and, since 2005, the Global Distinguished Professor...
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African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and FuturitySignaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Mon e, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this...
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Kant on Freedom, Nature, and JudgmentKant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet's book posits it as examining a genuinely independent sphere of human...
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Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American PragmatismMono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism argues that gender is best understood as a felt sense of the organization of the human body. Through Japanese aesthetics and American pragmatism, this book argues that re-understanding gender as an...
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The Art of SerendipitySerendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant to understanding the positive aspects of our daily lives and even human progress in the arts and sciences. The chapters in this book reflects a variety of theoretical...
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