Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Critique du jugement esthétique
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: June 3, 2019
Critique du jugement esthétique 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 de l'esthétique...
by Francesco Pala
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Cosa può rendere un essere umano dotato di fascino in un mondo dominato dalla routine quotidiana e dalle banalità della comunicazione virtuale? Come si può avere uno stile individuale se tutto appare logoro, già visto, prevedibile? Si può costruire una vita unica, irripetibile? A queste domande...
Komik und Humor
Psychologische-Ästhetische Untersuchung
Language: German
Release Date: February 6, 2017
"Dieses eBook: "Komik und Humor" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Theodor Lipps untersucht die Wirkung und den Effekt von Komik und Humor. Theodor Lipps (1851-1914) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Psychologe...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This vintage book is Bertram Thomas’s 1932 travelogue, “Arabia Felix”. It is a factual account of his epic voyage across the vast southern desert of the Arabian Peninsula from 1930-3. A fascinating page-turner that chronicles a stunning achievement likely never to be attempted again, “Arabia...
The Question of Painting
Rethinking Thought with Merleau-Ponty
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement....
Ecce Homo
How One Becomes What One is
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as...
by Rafe McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach – the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content – to present a new argument for, and defence of, literary humanism. He argues that literature has value for...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This vintage book contains the second volume of Arthur Schopenhauer’s 1818 treatise, "The World As Will And Idea". One of the most influential philosophical works of the nineteenth century, it is Schopenhauer’s greatest endeavour, and constitutes the summation of a lifetime of contemplation....
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: German
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Die Philosophie der Komposition ist ein Essay von Edgar Allan Poe, in dem er eine ästhetische Theorie über das Ziel und die Methode von Literatur entwickelt. Der Essay erschien zum ersten Mal 1846 im Graham's Magazine. Er beeinflusste die moderne Lyrik, vor allem den französischen Symbolismus....
Philosophische Schriften: Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen + Über das Erhabene + Über Anmuth und Würde + Philosophische Briefe und mehr
Über das Pathetische + Über die nothwendigen Grenzen beim Gebrauch schöner Formen + Zerstreute Betrachtungen über verschiedene ästhetische Gegenstände + Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung...
Language: German
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Philosophische Schriften: Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen + Über das Erhabene + Über Anmuth und Würde + Philosophische Briefe und mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Friedrich...
The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity....
by Dr. Nicole Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly...
Things
In Touch with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually...
Ensayo sobre el exotismo
Una estética de lo diverso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Entre los textos aparecidos tras su muerte en 1919 se encuentran estas breves páginas que ahora rescatamos sobre el tema central de su obra literaria y su propia biografía. El exotismo, como una cierta estética de lo diverso, es para Segalen una categoría de la sensibilidad enfrentada a lo extraño,...