Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Art and Morality
Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests...
Only Imagine
Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'. The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to exactly what the author of the...
Penser l'humain avec Maldiney
Apprches de la transpassibilité
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2016
La pensée de Henri Maldiney puise dans différents champs de la connaissance aussi diversifiés que la psychopathologie, la peinture, la poésie, la philosophie classique allemande, la phénoménologie, la pensée de l’existence ou encore la linguistique. Maldiney fonde ainsi non seulement une...
by Luigi Pareyson
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Ces trois textes de Luigi Pareyson, le premier tié du cours universitaire de 1958-59 sur "l'esthétique de Valéry" qui concerne la genèse de cette pensée, les deux autres qui mettent en lumière la notion de "règle" et le rapport du "son" et du "sens" chez...
Psychologie du libre arbitre
Essai philosophique
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Extrait : "Il importe avant tout de préciser avec soin ce qui constitue un acte voulu. Voici ce que l'analyse distingue dans la psychologie d'un tel acte : 1° L'idée préconçue d'un acte à réaliser. 2° Un mobile ou stimulant, c'est-à-dire une tendance générale et permanente (instinct, penchant...
Le regard esthétique
Perspectives croisées philosophie/sociologie
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Cet ouvrage, fruit d’une étroite collaboration entre des enseignants-chercheurs appartenant aux laboratoires GEPECS et C3S ainsi qu’au Pôle Arts, culture, théâtre, musique de l’université de Franche-Comté, porte sur le regard esthétique. Les contributions retenues, présentées pour la plupart...
Image et philosophie
Les usages conceptuels de limage
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’interroger en profondeur la manière avec laquelle, historiquement, les philosophes ont « pratiqué l’image dans le concept ». Les auteurs s’interrogent sur le recours à la visualité et à la métaphore dans l’élaboration des schèmes philosophiques à travers...
by Dr Edward Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics. The concepts of difference, identity and repetition offer novel approaches to Western art music from Beethoven to Boulez and Bernhard Lang as well as jazz improvisation, popular and...
Beyond Reason
Wagner contra Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:* Der Ring des Nibelungen*, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate...
The Reinvention of Religious Music
Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious...
Architecture in Black
Theory, Space and Appearance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques...
Bare Architecture
A Schizoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought...
by Giovanni R. D'agostino, Fabrizio Elefante
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
"An outstanding work, but however written with an aphoristic light touch." Massimo Cacciari
"It deals with topics that stand deep in the heart of the world we are living in, and with our chances of freedom." Claudio Magris
“Populist – mediatic – democracy is…totalitarianism...
The Challenge of Coleridge
Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2000
Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the relationship of interpretation...