Aesthetics category: 1179 books
In Other Shoes
Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring...
Clarissa on the Continent
Translation and Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
"Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation...
Van Gogh among the Philosophers
Painting, Thinking, Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
Critique de la faculté de juger
Une œuvre fondamentale de l'esthétique moderne (La troisième grand ouvrage critique de Kant, après la Critique de la raison pure et la Critique de la raison pratique)
Language: French
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Critique de la faculté de juger ou Critique du jugement est un ouvrage philosophique d'Emmanuel Kant, publié en 1790. On considère en général cet ouvrage comme la troisième grande œuvre de Kant, après la Critique de la raison pure et la Critique de la raison pratique, et comme une œuvre fondamentale...
Hoggwash
The Callaghan and Rosenblatt Epistolary Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Barry Callaghan and Joe Rosenblatt, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years, with Callaghan donning an array of chapeaus, the man of belles lettres and hog flaneur-on-the-hoof from Smooth City, while Rosenblatt decades ago declared his...
by John Calvelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The image holds us in thrall, like a cocoon wrapped around our being. Each thread of this fantastic construction is a world we have imagined to be, and together they comprise a seemingly safe and secure habitat in which we may live. We live in worlds woven around other worlds, which exist in the one...
Artistic Research Methodology
Narrative, Power and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice. An artistic researcher has three intertwined tasks. First, she needs to develop and perfect her own artistic...
by D. N. Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Theory—an embattled discourse for decades—faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding.
by Adolfo Sagastume
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Aristóteles es el sumum de la filosofía griega, pues realiza una síntesis de todas las oposiciones, de ahí que se le conozca como el filósofo de la mediación o del término medio. Hace, pues, una diferencia entre poética y teckné. Él entiende por técnica una forma de hacer e incluso la equipara...
by Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural...
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet...
by Mennato Tedino
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2016
E' possibile operare un confronto teoretico utilizzando l'immagine cinematografica? L'autore ritiene che non solo sia possibile ma che addirittura questa è forse l'unica strada percorribile per pensare oggi l'heideggeriano superamento della metafisica. "Rifrazioni" intende mostrare come...
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
The Truth is Translated
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, in some quarters at least,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Michael Oakeshott has long been recognized as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, but until now no single volume has been able to examine all the facets of his wide-ranging philosophy with sufficient depth, expertise, and authority. The essays collected here...