Aesthetics list 53

Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

by Prudence J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005

Reading Rivers is the first book in a new series: Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Author Prudence Jones examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. The point of such an investigation is twofold: an examination of VergilOs poetry elucidates particularly...

Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy

by Leon Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden’s books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy...

Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value

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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015

This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad themes: mind, knowledge, and value....

Paolozzi and Wittgenstein

The Artist and the Philosopher

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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2019

This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. At this time, when Paolozzi’s oeuvre is in the process of being rediscovered, his long-time fascination with Wittgenstein requires thorough exploration,...

Badiou and Hegel

Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity

by Gabriel Riera, Frank Ruda, Tzuchien Tho
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015

Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel. Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss...

Komik & Humor

Psychologische-Ästhetische Untersuchung

by Theodor Lipps
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2017

Diese Ausgabe von "Komik und Humor" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Theodor Lipps untersucht die Wirkung und den Effekt von Komik und Humor. Theodor Lipps (1851-1914) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Psychologe des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Er galt...

Waste

by Dr. Brian Thill
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment...

Rage and Denials

Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890–1947

by Branko Mitrović
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015

In Rage and Denials, philosopher and architectural historian Branko Mitrović examines in detail the historiography of art and architecture in the twentieth century, with a focus on the debate between the understanding of society as a set of individuals and the understanding of individuals as mere...

The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought

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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we must now speak of an "aesthetic turn†? in political thought. But what does it mean and what makes it an aesthetic turn? Why now? This diverse and path-breaking collection of essays answers...

The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling

by Christopher Yates
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

The imagination is a decisive, if underappreciated, theme in German thought since Kant. In this rigorous historical and textual analysis, Christopher Yates challenges an oversight of traditional readings by presenting the first comparative study of F.W.J. Schelling and Martin Heidegger on this theme. By...

Expectation

Philosophy, Literature

by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature’s relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues...

The Critique of Judgement

by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical...

Friedrich Schiller: Philosophische Werke

Über das Pathetische + Über die nothwendigen Grenzen beim Gebrauch schöner Formen + Zerstreute Betrachtungen über verschiedene ästhetische Gegenstände + Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung...

by Friedrich Schiller
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), war ein deutscher Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker. Er vertrat...

Essentielle Schriften

by Friedrich Schiller
Language: German
Release Date: December 13, 2012