Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Bob Dylan and Philosophy
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial...
The Rhythm of Thought
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust,...
Philosophers on Music
Experience, Meaning, and Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Music is an increasingly popular object of reflection for professional philosophers, as it raises...
Notes sur le travail du spectateur et sur le spectateur au travail de soi
enjeu politique d'une approche du spectateur dans la représentation
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2008
J’ai découvert Christian Ruby en lisant en 2002 Les résistances à l’art contemporain publié aux éditions Labor. Explorant les enjeux de l’art à partir de la question du spectateur, Christian Ruby explique déjà que le rapport à l’œuvre contemporaine est une confrontation corporelle,...
The Don Giovanni Moment
Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.
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The Much-at-Once
Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body’s potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing and feeling, with a special emphasis on music, he engages a rich array of composers, writers, and...
Eric Rohmer
Filmmaker and Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cinéma – from whose editorship he was fired when the conservative...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Begun in 1837 at the recommendation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's Journal covers a period of 25 years until just before his death. The work provided much raw material for his books, and it remains a fascinating record of his thought as it developed over time. The complete Journal comprises 14...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years of reflection about the nature and purpose of art. The book is noteworthy not only for its famous iconoclasm and compelling attacks on the aestheticist notion of "art for art's sake," but even more for its wit, its lucid and beautiful prose, and its sincere...
Writing through Music
Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters....
Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest
That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume....
The Intellectual and His People
Staging the People Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive...
Sinister Resonance
The Mediumship of the Listener
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium...