Aesthetics category: 1179 books

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at...

With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a...

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art,...

Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses: Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art the ideas and texts of...

Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is a text by Aristotle on the details of gait and movement in various species of animals. Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless,...

Cet ouvrage est la première tentative de présenter une analyse approfondie et synthétisant des théories phénoménologique de Marc Richir. L’étude compare systématiquement son œuvre avec celle d’Edmund Husserl, et montre que la phénoménologie richirienne se présente comme une phénoménologie...

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic.

Minerva’s Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on philosophical issues relating...

Tragedy, Aristotle states, seeks to imitate the matters of superior people, while comedy seeks to imitate the matters of inferior people. To Aristotle, the most important constituent of tragedy is plot, and successful plots require that the sequence of events be necessary (required to happen to advance...

Infinite Gradation is an astonishing meditation on the mystery at the heart of our mortality. In lines as precise and profound as any Michaels has written, Infinite Gradation movingly explores the nature of responsibility in extremis and the forms it takes—it is about hope in art, what art makes...

Riassunti di filosofia basati sui testi di Nicola Abbagnano e Giovanni Fornero. Utili per lo studio in vista di interrogazioni orali, dato che sono strutturati in maniera discorsiva e logica. Nota dell'autore: "Più che "sintesi" o "riassunto", io preferisco chiamare questo...

Aforismi, futurismi per il XXI secolo, un inno non stop alla scienza contemporanea e alle sue, in ogni campo, nonostante gli ignavi, nuove rivoluzioni. Eppur si muove, eppur si ama, ma come un necessario rasoio di Occam. Per una divertente società scientifica prossimo ventura, edonistica e libertaria. Magari da e verso, oggi, un necessario e pragmatico futuro partito della scienza.

Edition Complète de " Poèmes - Son premier recueil de poésies - Oscar Wilde ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. En 1881, son premier recueil...

He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed...