Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Waste
A Philosophy of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new - it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and...
Overlooking the Visual
Demystifying the Art of Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that...
Santayana the Philosopher
Philosophy as a Form of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways. An attentive analysis of his complete œuvre, however, reveals something else entirely. It is not easy to classify a thinker as a Platonic materialist, an ironic nihilist, a spiritual atheist,...
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that...
by Matthew Kieran
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Pollock, Revealing Art takes us on a compelling and provocative journey.
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A Significant Life
Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about these...
Claude Simon
Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present considers the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005), and its broader implications for the study of narrative, and for cultural and post-modern theory. This...
Moral Vision
How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
What is moral reasoning? Are we being reasonable when we make moral decisions if we cannot supply compelling arguments, criteria, necessary and sufficient conditions, decisive empirical evidence and the like? In Moral Vision, Duane L. Cady critiques the contemporary inclination to model reason after...
Il lavoro della ragione
Dimensioni del soggetto nella Fenomenologia dello spirito di Hegel
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Nella nostra epoca ormai priva delle certezze metafisiche tradizionali, lo studio della dimensione morale della soggettività nella Fenomenologia dello spirito di Hegel significa porsi come oggetto di indagine uno tra i temi di maggiore interesse filosofico, proprio per la sua stretta attualità....
by Giovanna Pinna
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2012
La vita e le opere del filosofo che ha teorizzato l‘anima bella, figura che tanto rilievo ha avuto nella cultura tedesca, a cavallo tra Settecento e Ottocento.«Il primo accostamento di Schiller alla filosofia è in un contesto anomalo: la facoltà di medicina dellAccademia militare di Stoccarda,...
by Scott Cutler Shershow
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social...
Fictive Narrative Philosophy
How Fiction Can Act as Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
What is the philosophical voice within literature? Does literature have a voice of its own? Can this voice really be philosophical in its own right? In this book, Michael Boylan argues that some literary works indeed can make their own unique claims in different areas of philosophy. He calls this...
by Johann Gottfried Herder
Language: German
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Kritische Wälder, oder Betrachtungen die Wissenschaft und Kunst des Schönen betreffend, gilt als die wichtigste von Herders Studien. Dabei handelte es sich um eine Vertiefung und Erweiterung seiner Sprachphilosophie, die er auf den Satz Hamanns gründete, wonach "die Poesie die Muttersprache...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make and the questions surrounding...