Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Merleau-Ponty
Space, Place, Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place,...
Art and Ethics in a Material World
Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...
by Elaine Scarry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable...
by PhD Seth Kim-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months - June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in New York indulged the ambience of sound and light: James Turrell at the Guggenheim, Soundings at MoMA,...
How To Like Everything
A Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
How To Like Everything is a utopia. 'Utopia' is a word invented five hundred years ago at the start of the modern age as a description of the ideal society. It's composed of Latin parts that taken together mean 'no place' or 'nowhere'. We now use the word utopia to mean an impossible dream of perfection....
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
On the Verge of Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical...
Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The 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, not in the...
Sensibility and Sense
The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an...
Endless Andness
The Politics of Abstraction According to Ann Veronica Janssens
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Las Consideraciones Intempestivas forman parte de lo que se llama sus obras tempranas y con El Nacimiento de la Tragedia constituyen en varios sentidos una unidad. Ambas responden a una misma preocupación, es el tema de la cultura, la cultura de su época, la cultura europea, alemana especialmente,...
Gesammelte Werke: Romane, Philosophische Werke, Autobiografische Schriften und mehr
Anton Reiser + Götterlehre + Andreas Hartknopf + Über den Begriff des in sich selbst Vollendeten + Das Edelste in der Natur + Über die Allegorie, Das menschliche Elend und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) war ein vielseitiger Schriftsteller des Sturm und Drang, der Berliner Aufklärung und der Weimarer Klassik, der auch der Frühromantik Impulse gab. Er hatte ein bewegtes Leben als...
Schriften zur Ästhetik
Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2018
"Über die schönen Wissenschaften muß entweder etwas sehr gutes, oder gar nichts geschrieben werden", erklärte Karl Philipp Moritz 1785. Und tatsächlich gelang es ihm, auf dem Gebiet der Kunstreflexion etwas Besonderes zu leisten: Noch vor Kant und Schiller begründete er die Autonomieästhetik,...
Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman
On Film as Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can 'do' philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the film-maker, or a group...
by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.