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Vivir

Tratado de la desesperanza y la felicidad/2

by André Comte-Sponville
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2015

"La fe salva, luego miente, decía Nietzsche. El materialismo es más difícil. El ateo, que no cree más que en la naturaleza, sólo puede constatar que la naturaleza es amoral. [...] Pero entonces, ¿para qué la virtud? ¿Y por qué resistir a lo peor? Absurdamente virtuoso o lógicamente...
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by Meredith Castile
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents....
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The Image in Mind

Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

by Jil Evans, Professor Charles Taliaferro
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination...
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Marvelous Images

On Values and the Arts

by Kendall Walton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "'How Marvelous!':...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007

As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. THEORY'S EMPIRE was an important step in that direction. Framing THEORY'S EMPIRe carries on the conversation with sophistication and flair. -Denis Dutton
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Serious Larks

The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

by Ted Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers and aestheticians—but...
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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel

Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1993

Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises...
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Photography and Ontology

Unsettling Images

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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form. What makes photographic images...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015

It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern philosophical thought through the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their intrinsic directedness toward some object. The many...
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Philosophische Werke

Ideal einer vollkommnen Zeitung + Über den Begriff des in sich selbst Vollendeten + Das Edelste in der Natur + Götterlehre + Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen und mehr

by Karl Philipp Moritz
Language: German
Release Date: August 18, 2015

Dieses eBook: "Philosophische Werke" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Über den Begriff des in sich selbst Vollendeten Das Edelste in der Natur Das menschliche Elend Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen...
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Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Philosophische Werke + Autobiografische Schriften

Anton Reiser + Götterlehre + Andreas Hartknopf + Über den Begriff des in sich selbst Vollendeten + Das Edelste in der Natur + Über die Allegorie, Das menschliche Elend und mehr

by Karl Philipp Moritz
Language: German
Release Date: August 18, 2015

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Philosophische Werke + Autobiografische Schriften" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) war ein vielseitiger Schriftsteller des Sturm und Drang,...
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Traité du Beau

Recherches philosophiques sur l'origine et la nature du beau

by Denis Diderot
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2012

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Diderot. Denis Diderot a lui-même rédigé plusieurs milliers d'articles de son "Encyclopédie", dont cet essai sur le Beau, qui constitue l'une des contributions les plus remarquables des encyclopédistes à la philosophie de l'Art. Publié...
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Alter, neuer Kalter Krieg?

Eine philosophiegeschichtliche Analyse des Zusammenhangs von «Sozialismus» und Frieden

by Ulrich Knappe
Language: German
Release Date: August 27, 2014

Ist es nicht verwunderlich, mit welcher Präzision der Kalte Krieg an der Ukrainekrise wieder aufbricht? Die alten, eingeübten, systemischen, konfrontativen Denk- und Handlungsmuster sind nicht überwunden, sondern scheinbar nur zurückgedrängt worden. Wenn Verstehen und Verständigung, als Überlebensprinzip...
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Das Passagen-Werk

Die Straßen von Paris: Einer der Grundlagentexte materialistischer Kulturtheorie - Blick in die Jetztzeit des Spätkapitalismus

by Walter Benjamin
Language: German
Release Date: January 26, 2015

Dieses eBook: "Das Passagen-Werk" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) war ein deutscher Philosoph, Literaturkritiker und Übersetzer der Werke von Balzac, Baudelaire und Marcel Proust....
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