Aesthetics category: 1179 books
An Ethics of Improvisation
Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an examination of current...
Forme(s) et modes dêtre / Form(s) and Modes of Being
Lontologie de Roman Ingarden / The Ontology of Roman Ingarden
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Le présent ouvrage est un recueil d’articles de chercheurs internationaux sur l’apport à l’ontologie du phénoménologue polonais Roman Ingarden. Il contient des contributions sur des thèmes aussi divers que la dépendance existentielle, les catégories ontologiques, les modes d’être,...
Work and Object
Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them. Issues about the creation of works, what is essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds of properties, including aesthetic properties,...
Thinking in Film
The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years...
Kafka
In Light of the Accident
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka.
Kafka: In the Light of the Accident advances a...
Making Sense
A Theory of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of 'interpreter' for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. But is the formulation of explanatory hypotheses in science so different from the interpretive work of artists? Making Sense recognizes...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard is a famous play written in 1993. The play revolves around the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge.
The play has been highly acclaimed and most of the critics consider it the finest play written by...
Public Art
Thinking Museums Differently
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated museums from other institutions similarly committed...
The Five Senses
A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly,...
Geometry
The Third Book of Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics. Even more broadly, Geometry is the beginnings of things and also how these beginnings have shaped how we continue to think philosophically and critically. Serres rejects...
Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
The Prism of the Self
Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This volume contains sOOeen essays written by his students and colleagues in honor of Maurice Natanson. The essays explore some of the diverse themes Professor Natanson has pursued through forty years of teaching and philosophizing in the tradition of existential phenomenology. Because it also includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Having once said that “Colours spur us to philosophize”, the theme of colour was one to which Wittgenstein returned constantly throughout his career. Ranging from...
by Peter Lamarque
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading philosophers of literature at work today, explores these and related questions to bring new clarity...