Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Artistic Judgement
A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the institutional practices of the art world. Hence...
Philosophy of the Arts
An Introduction to Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel. Each chapter has been...
Criticism after Critique
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
Musical Concerns
Essays in Philosophy of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating...
Common Things
Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.
Drawing on the work of Washington...
by Julia Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight...
Beauty
The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is...
by Ramona Cormier, Shannon Dubose, James K. Feibleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...
Phenomenology and Aesthetics
Approaches to Comparative Literature and the Other Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
and the one in the middle which judges as he enjoys and enjoys as he judges. This latter kind really reproduces the work of art anew. The division of our Symposium into three sections is justified by the fact that phenomenology, from Husserl, Heidegger, Moritz Geiger, Ingarden, in Germany and Poland,...
Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste
Aesthetics in Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical"...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Philosophy of Literature presents six newly-commissioned essays from international scholars that address some of the key issues relating to the philosophy of literature, a thriving and increasingly influential branch of aesthetics
Features a half dozen newly commissioned articles from leading...
The Practices of the Enlightenment
Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic...
The Storm at Sea
Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which...