Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Reverberations
The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.
This wide-ranging book examines the concept and...
The Sound of Ontology
Music as a Model for Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics explores connections between Western art music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the ideas that dominated philosophy leading up to and during that period. In the process of establishing John Cage as Richard Wagner’s heir via Arnold...
by Michaela Schrage-Früh
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory, philosophy...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy...
The Philosophy of Perception
Phenomenology and Image Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question...
Chiasmatic Encounters
Art, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various...
Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty
Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty's later ontology of language in the light of his "figured philosophy,†? which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation. Kaushik argues that, since for Merleau-Ponty the work of...
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.
Thinking Through the Imagination
Aesthetics in Human Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene mseems overdone and passé?
This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence...
Nefer
The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt it...
by Efrat Biberman, Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit reference to the death drive as manifest in theories of art and in artworks.
Freud’s treatment...
Once-Told Tales
An Essay in Literary Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise.
Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novel
Uses...
The Method of Equality
Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too...