Aesthetics category: 1179 books
The Sensible Invisible
Itineraries in Aesthetic Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The itineraries traced by this book investigate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience. This latter is here understood as the primary experience through which our whole existence as human beings is endowed with the world and can manifest itself. Readers will find two different...
Nabokov and the Question of Morality
Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov’s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such...
The Poetics of Phantasia
Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory.
The Greeks and Romans tended...
Beyond Mimesis and Convention
Representation in Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations...
by Peter M. Burkholder, James K. Feibleman, Carol A. Kates
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
by Erwin Hiebert
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were committed to understanding crucial...
Film, Art, and the Third Culture
A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and integrate the resources of disciplines...
by Henrik Hogh-Olesen
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature...
Enjoyment
From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria by which the significance of comedy can be...
by Mortimer R. Kadish
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship, and the assumptions of aesthetics from the difficulties and paradoxes of aesthetic relativism. It presents a picture of what rationality in the assessment of the arts would be like...
Hip Hop, Hegel, and the Art of Emancipation
Let's Get Free
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book argues that Hip Hop’s early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel’s account of the trajectory of art in general, and the...
The Autonomy of Pleasure
Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free...
The Sense of Semblance
Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust. The book’s principal aim is to move beyond the familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness...
Things Beyond Resemblance
Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished...