Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Vermeer, Góngora, Spinoza
L'esthétique comme science intuitive
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Dans les tableaux de Vermeer, comme l’Art de la peinture, la Vue de Delft ou la Jeune lle avec la perle, et dans les Soledades de Góngora, on représente, dans l’intensité d’une vision qui est à la fois – et de façon inextricable – perception sensible et intelligence, raison et imagination,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The majority of aestheticians have focused their attention during the past three decades on the identity, or essential nature, of art: can 'art' be defined? What makes an object a work of art? Under what conditions can we characterize in a classificatory sense an object as an art work? The debate,...
by Tim Gilman-Ševčík
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The Academy of Forgetting introduces an anti-institution at an uncertain time and in an unstable location. By demonstrating the dissertation as artwork, it questions and extends the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of doctoral studies for visual artists. It also explores our contemporary struggle...
Resemblance and Representation
An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example,...
by Paul M.W. Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and partial order mereology to model...
Aesthetic Sexuality
A Literary History of Sadomasochism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to...
Music and Aesthetic Reality
Formalism and the Limits of Description
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music. He focuses on metaphysical issues about aesthetic properties of music, psychological issues about the nature of musical experience, and philosophy of language...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuze and Guattari has had in the course of this movement, has given rise to new practices in architecture and urban theory. This interdisciplinary volume...
Theories of Hope
Exploring Alternative Affective Dimensions of Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience is a collection of essays dedicated to inquiring into the nature of hope in its multiple and varied guises. Looking specifically at the ways in which some experiences of hope emerge within contexts of marginalization, transgression,...
Walter Benjamin
Ein philosophisches Porträt
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Walter Benjamin wird oft als Kulturkritiker angesehen, dessen überwältigendes Aufgebot an herausragenden und eigenwilligen Werken nicht viel mehr zusammenhält als der Eindruck, sie trügen den Stempel seines nicht weiter zu spezifizierenden „Genius“. In Eli Friedlanders Darstellung ist Benjamins...
The Intelligence of Place
Topographies and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. The...
by Wale Owoeye
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Owe Ile Yoruba) is a collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation for the understanding of global readers.
Full of wisdom and lyricism, it is a classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
by Tertius Venter
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Cultures differ widely in their standards of beauty but the response to beauty is universal. Every human is drawn to beauty. Something within us gets excited and satisfied, reposed, when we experience love and beauty. Beauty, love and sex, are mysteriously interwoven but often cause much pain. Some fundamentals need to be grasped in our hearts to enjoy beauty to the full.
DECLUTTER YOUR MIND MAKE SIMPLE
Hundreds of best ideas how to control your thoughts, boost your willpower and eliminate negative thinking for a good life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Declutter Your Mind
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