Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Sensational Subjects
The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'?
In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with...
by Jacques Rancière
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 15, 2014
A política da ficção procura examinar a partir da experiência literária do realismo a disrupção estética que internamente a perturba. Os efeitos de real são tomados como excessos descritivos mas também como elementos supérfluos e inúteis onde se jogam falsas evidências e contra-interpretações...
How to Build a Boat
A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.
Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings,...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A pesar de ser conocido fundamentalmente como el irreverente e ingenioso dramaturgo y cuentista y autor de El retrato de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde fue también un crítico literario visionario. Defendió la crítica como una disciplina independiente de la literatura y enfatizó el rol esencial de...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Bajo una apariencia caprichosa y paradójica, las páginas de crítica y estética de Oscar Wilde quizá sean lo más original y perdurable de toda su obra. No sólo nos ofrecen un ejemplo perfecto de lo que debió de ser el Wilde conversador sino que la mayoría de sus ideas, que tanto escandalizaron...
De Gustibus
Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence people's behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue...
How to Sleep
The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally...
Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)
A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond...
Tom Petty and Philosophy
We Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Tom Petty's Last Tour Sold 637,671 Tickets Across 44 Shows, Earned $61 Million
The dedication of Tom Petty fans remains intense as they await the release of many high-quality recordings expected to be made available in the next year or two.
Tom Petty and Philosophy appears a year after...
Immanence and Immersion
On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Immersion is the new orthodoxy. Within the production, curation and critique of sound art, as well as within the broader fields of sound studies and auditory culture, the immersive is routinely celebrated as an experiential quality of sound, the value of which is inherent yet strengthened through...
by Professor Douglas Hedley
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley...
Aesthetic Genesis
The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Aesthetic Genesis, the author argues for a reversal of the most fundamental tenet of phenomenology-namely, that all consciousness is intentional (that is, directed toward an object). Mitscherling suggests, as a new 'Copernican hypothesis,' that intentionality (i.e., directionality) gives rise to...
Antithetical Arts
On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to...