Aesthetics category: 1179 books

A medio camino entre la monografía filosófica y la meditación memorística, Qué es el arte pone en tela de juicio la creencia popular según la cual el arte es un concepto indefinible, y tras ello nos expone las propiedades que constituyen su sentido universal. Según Danto, y a pesar de las diversas...

Two representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers. The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of...

For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition...

L'Origine de la Tragédie (Die Geburt der Tragödie) est une œuvre du philosophe allemand Friedrich Nietzsche, qu’il publia en 1872 à l’âge de 28 ans. La première traduction française de cet ouvrage: "L’Origine de la Tragédie dans la musique ou Hellénisme et Pessimisme" traduit...

Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed...

Den wissenschaftlichen Versuchen, das Kunstwerk zu deuten und auszuwerten, sollte die Entscheidung zwischen zwei Wegerichtungen zugrunde liegen. Ihren Trennungspunkt bildet das Erlebnis der Kunst, die primäre, ungeteilte Tatsache, dass das Werk da ist und in dem Aufnehmenden seine unmittelbare Wirkung...

Inhalt: Goethes Rechenschaft Die Stetigkeit in Goethes Weltbild Goethe und die Frauen Goethes Liebe Goethes Individualismus Polarität und Gleichgewicht bei Goethe Das Verhältnis von Leben und Schaffen bei Goethe Goethes Gerechtigkeit Goethe und die Jugend Das Goethebuch

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the...

A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: “Probing and lucid” (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame). Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato....

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the...

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by...

Arthur C. Danto is unique among philosophers for the breadth of his philosophical mind, his eloquent writing style, and the generous spirit embodied in all his work. Any collection of essays on his philosophy has to engage him on all these levels, because this is how he has always engaged the world,...

While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative...

Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida,...